The Physicist and the Philosopher : : Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time / / Jimena Canales.

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• VerfasserIn: Canales, Jimena,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing tha...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• PART 1. THE DEBATE
• CHAPTER 1. Untimely
• CHAPTER 2. "More Einsteinian than Einstein"
• CHAPTER 3. Science or Philosophy?
• PART 2. THE MEN
• CHAPTER 4. The Twin Paradox
• CHAPTER 5. Bergson's Achilles' Heel
• CHAPTER 6. Worth Mentioning?
• CHAPTER 7. Bergson Writes to Lorentz
• CHAPTER 8. Bergson Meets Michelson
• CHAPTER 9. The Debate Spreads
• CHAPTER 10. Back from Paris
• CHAPTER 11. Two Months Later
• CHAPTER 12. Logical Positivism
• CHAPTER 13. The Immediate Aftermath
• CHAPTER 14. An Imaginary Dialogue
• CHAPTER 15. "Full-Blooded" Time
• CHAPTER 16. The Previous Spring
• CHAPTER 17. The Church
• CHAPTER 18. The End of Universal Time
• CHAPTER 19. Quantum Mechanics
• PART 3. THE THINGS
• CHAPTER 20. Things
• CHAPTER 21. Clocks and Wristwatches
• CHAPTER 22. Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio
• CHAPTER 23. Atoms and Molecules
• CHAPTER 24. Einstein's Films: Reversible
• CHAPTER 25. Bergson's Movies: Out of Control
• CHAPTER 26. Microbes and Ghosts
• CHAPTER 27. One New Point: Recording Devices
• PART 4. THE WORDS
• CHAPTER 28. Bergson's Last Comments
• CHAPTER 29. Einstein's Last Thoughts
• Postface
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index