A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein became close friends; they walked to and from their offices every day, exchanging…
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A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein became close friends; they walked to and from their offices every day, exchanging ideas about science, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science. Einstein endorsed this result reluctantly but he could find no way to refute it, since then, neither has anyone else. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist.
In A World Without Time, Palle Yourgrau sets out to restore Godel to his rightful place in history, telling the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue the brilliant work they did Yet cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded as if this discovery was never made.