In the dim light of morning Albert Einstein, the young patent clerk, sprawls in his chair, head down on his desk. For the past several months he has dreamed many dreams about time. His dreams have taken hold of his research. But the dreaming has finished. Out of many possible natures of time, imagined in as many nights, one seems compelling. Somewhere, time can be circular, or flow backwards, or take the form of a nightingale. EINSTEIN'S DREAMS is an enchantment and a literary adventure, one which Salman Rushdie has ...
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In the dim light of morning Albert Einstein, the young patent clerk, sprawls in his chair, head down on his desk. For the past several months he has dreamed many dreams about time. His dreams have taken hold of his research. But the dreaming has finished. Out of many possible natures of time, imagined in as many nights, one seems compelling. Somewhere, time can be circular, or flow backwards, or take the form of a nightingale. EINSTEIN'S DREAMS is an enchantment and a literary adventure, one which Salman Rushdie has compared to Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES and which, more than ever, is in tune with the huge interest in science.
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I rarely like artsy books written by scientists and this was no exception. Lightman imagined different worlds systematically, but unfortunately the people in them were cardboard.
gabba
Mar 12, 2009
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This book it's amazing!! for every age. Have short dreams about Einstein when he as writing his theory of relativity!! i love june 9 1905!! read it!!
Matthew
Oct 23, 2007
Fun novel for anyone interested in physics
Set in the days leading up to Einstein's publication of his Theory of Relativity, this novel tells of Einstein dreaming of different ways time might flow. Want to know what the world would be like if time really flowed in circle, dooming evryone to commit the same mistakes over and over? Or a world completely acausal and lacking any real relationship to time? Enter Einstein's Dreams and find out!
