Palle Yourgrau, A World Without Time, The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein Basic Books, In physics the possibility of knowledge of objectivizable states of affairs is denied, and it is asserted that we must be content to predict the results of observations. This is really the end of all theoretical science in the usual sense. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein: Author: Palle Yourgrau: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Allen Lane, ISBN: , Length: pages: 4/5(7). · A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein: Author: Palle Yourgrau: Publisher: Basic Books, ISBN: X, Length: 4/5(8).
Browse by Content Type. Profiles Perspectives Awards Seen Heard. Book to Screen In the News Video Interviews Fully Booked Podcast. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Go¨del and Einstein Palle Yourgrau Basic Books, New York, $ ( pp.). ISBN Buy at Amazon During the World Year of Physics , hundreds of authors couldn't resist using the golden recipe "Albert Einstein and X" to publish yet another book on their pet subject of X. A world without time: the forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. the forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein by Yourgrau, Palle, author. Publication date A World without Time is a sweeping, ambitious book, and yet poignant and intimate.
By , Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result-reluctantly, since it decisively overthrew the classical world-view to which he was committed. But he could find no way to refute it, and in the half-century since then, neither has anyone else. Yourgrau's book A World Without Time is part biography (or a dual biography of Einstein and Gödel), part history (of the transitional culture that arose from the end of the 19th to the early 20th centuries), part nostalgia (for the Café Society of Vienna during that period, which was for philosophers what the Café Society of Paris was for artists), part gossip (about the behavioral eccentricities and estrangement of both men), part philosophical discussion (of Gödel's distinctions. By , Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result - reluctantly, since it decisively overthrew.
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