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Einstein's Dreams / Alan Lightman.

By: Language: English Publisher: 2012Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2005Description: 140 pISBN:
  • 9781780335575
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820 22 (machine generated)
Other classification:
  • He
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Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Lightman Available 11156000187452
Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Lightman Available 11156000187451
Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Lightman Available 11156000187450
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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.