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Original Title:	Einstein's Dreams
ISBN:	140007780X (ISBN13: 9781400077809)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Albert Einstein, Besso
Setting:	Bern,1905(Switzerland)

Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 29992 Users | 3164 Reviews

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Title	:	Einstein's Dreams
Author	:	Alan Lightman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	November 9th 2004 by Vintage (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Philosophy. Science Fiction

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A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.

Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.

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Today I had some time on my hands to provide you with the thoughts I have on this book.Developing a scientific theory surly takes time. I won't happen over night. I always wondered what goes around in the minds of great minds when they are "in the zone", totally immersed in their respective thoughts. What are their dreams at night after a full day of theorizing? This book gives an answer, albeit a fictional one.Author Alan Lightman (what an aptly name for a physicist) provides a dream diary of

I had an awful Physics teacher at University, but one thing he was good at was getting the class to understand Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which has always fascinated me.This book was brilliant. Imagine a world where time is a circle.Or a world where cause and effect are erratic. Or a world where time is not continuous. These are a few of the worlds Einstein dreams up while he's working on his Theory. Time is definitely a central theme in this book and few will be able to look at time (or

I agree that Lightman could have done a lot more; I'm about 2/3 through the book and almost didn't finish it, but since it's pandemic time and I have

Time has always fascinated me. Well, I say always, but that's not true. In fact, I'm almost never fascinated by time. Only very occasionally, in short bouts, whenever I happen to think about it. If I'd have to add up all the time during which I was fascinated by time, I don't think it would add up to much more than a week, if that. And yet, during my fascination with time, it feels like an endless, enduring fascination that I always carry around with me, and that I've been subconsciously

I don't smoke anymore, but man, If I did, this book would be perfect. There's not alot of narrative, its just a series of fictional dreams that Einstein would've had as he was hammering out his theory of time in the early 20th century. There are brief narrative interludes that describe the times Besso and the ever so aloof Einstein share some time together, but most of the book consists of thought experiments on the nature of time. The nameless human characters that are cast in these vignettes

Some of the best fun I have had in recent years of reading came in the two hours it took me to read this (including frantic back-tracks and hop-skips) fantastic book. Time is the hero of this collection and comes veiled in every twisted garb we can conceive, or rather, that Einstein can dream up. Einstein in his mad canter towards discovering the most revolutionary idea in science tumbles right down an imaginary wonderland in this book.What comes out of the recesses of Einstein's brooding on the

You hit the nail on the head. Or rather, several nails on their respective heads.