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It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German-Austrian science in which they had grown up. What is not widely known is the discovery that grew out of this friendship. By 1949 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. Even more remarkable than this stunning discovery, however, was what happened afterward: nothing. Cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded with their work as if Godel's proof never existed -- one of the greatest scandals of modern intellectual history. A World without Time is a sweeping, ambitious book, and yet poignant and intimate. It tells the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the brilliant work they did together.
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World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
2009, Basic Books
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078673700X 9780786737000
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A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel And Einstein
March 31, 2006, Perseus Books Group
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0465092942 9780465092949
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A world without time: the forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein
2005, Basic Books
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0465092934 9780465092932
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A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy Of Godel And Einstein
December 28, 2004, Basic Books
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0465092934 9780465092932
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World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
2002, Penguin Books, Limited
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0140286721 9780140286724
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