The physicist and the philosopher [electronic resource] : Einstein and Bergson and the debate that changed our understanding of time / Jimena Canales.
Canales, Jimena, author.
2015
BD638 .C363 2015eb
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Title The physicist and the philosopher [electronic resource] : Einstein and Bergson and the debate that changed our understanding of time / Jimena Canales.
Author Canales, Jimena, author.
ISBN 9781400865772 electronic book
9780691165349
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 479 pages)
Call Number BD638 .C363 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 115
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Untimely
"More Einsteinian than Einstein"
Science or philosophy?
The twin paradox
Bergson's achilles' heel
Worth mentioning?
Bergson writes to Lorentz
Bergson meets Michelson
The debate spreads
Back from Paris
Two months later
Logical positivism
The immediate aftermath
An imaginary dialog
"Full-blooded" time
The previous spring
The church
The end of universal time
Quantum mechanics
Things
Clocks and wristwatches
Telegraph, telephone, and radio
Atoms and molecules
Einstein's films: reversible
Bergson's movies: out-of-control
Microbes and ghosts
One new point: recording devices
Bergson's last comments
Einstein's last thoughts.

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