It is ten minutes past six by the invisible clock on the wall. The young patents clerk sprawls in his chair, dreaming about time. He is Albert Einstein, and in his dreams he imagines new worlds, in which time can be circular, or flow backwards, or slow down at higher altitudes.
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It is ten minutes past six by the invisible clock on the wall. The young patents clerk sprawls in his chair, dreaming about time. He is Albert Einstein, and in his dreams he imagines new worlds, in which time can be circular, or flow backwards, or slow down at higher altitudes.
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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
read the book
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!