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001 2014047686
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010 $a 2014047686
020 $a9780691165349 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aOU/DLC$beng$erda$cOU
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBD638$b.C326 2015
082 00 $a115$223
100 1 $aCanales, Jimena,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe physicist and the philosopher :$bEinstein and Bergson and the debate that changed our understanding of time /$cJimena Canales.
263 $a1505
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aUntimely -- "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.
650 0 $aTime$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aRelativity (Physics)
600 10 $aEinstein, Albert,$d1879-1955.
600 10 $aBergson, Henri,$d1859-1941.
650 0 $aPhysicists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aPhilosophers$zFrance$vBiography.