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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 Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

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Title	:	Einstein's Dreams
Author	:	Alan Lightman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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Ratings: 4.07 From 29992 Users | 3164 Reviews

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There are few things more disappointing than seeing an author take an idea that should fascinate and surprise us, and reducing it until it is little more than a dull blip. In the process of trying to render them accessible to his audience, he stripped from them anything that might be really challenging or thought-provoking. In the end, his writing simply lacked the subtlety and power required.The work is structured like that of other authors seeking aphoristic profundity, like Borges, Calvino,

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

Scientists are brilliant writers. Their ideas, the coherence of phrases, the flowing writing, the logic, the meaning behind the allegories have no match in literature. And when the book is mostly philosophical but based on a physics component, is even more outstanding.And this book is all that. It is not sci-fi or scientific, as the title may mislead and it has no plot whatsoever. It is a book about you, me, us and humanitys most fearful enemy: Time.Is time really flowing only onward? Nobody

This 179 page book took me four days to read. Not because it was difficult. In fact, the prose was exquisite and effortless in its beauty. It was because I wanted to read and cherish all of the novel's short vignettes rather than rush through. The book is a series of dreams, close to 30 in all, that Albert Einstein is dreaming as he struggles with his theory of relativity. Alan Lightman, a physicist himself, describes aspects of the theory and time itself through these descriptive "stories".

Unfortunatelly 5 stars are the maximum. This book deserves more.This is a perfect example of writing a jem in only 140 pages or so. (Paul Auster could read this one and take example). Each story is a perfectly written dystopy on time. What a marvelous book. i had goosebumps while reading it. i had tears in my eyes also.I read it on the Bucharest - Hamburg 2h20min flight while I actually travelled back in time 1h. There are two times in the history of most humans, times which are akribically paid

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

This was for me a refreshing and delightful read on alternative conceptions of time, borne out of playful thought experiments set among the residents of the city of Berne Switzerland in 1908. These permutations are alternated with interludes from the daily life of Einstein, who was then using his free time as a patent office worker to develop his Special Theory of Relativity, which demands of us to conceive of time as just another dimension in the space-time continuum. Most will have heard of