First serial to Granta, Harper's and the Sciences. The great scientist broods in the hazy distance, indifferent as the Alps above this chronometric carnival. Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. Its one disappointment is a scanty view of Einstein, whom we glimpse only in the waking interludes which periodically break the progression of dream-worlds. Lightman's speculative prose poem warrants comparison to Calvino's masterful Invisible Cities. Each variation spawns its own weird psychology, yet magically, touchingly, each also echoes patterns of events that take place in supposedly ordinary time. Genres: 'Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Physics, Science, Science Fiction, Short. Get Full eBook File name 'EinsteinsDreams-AlanLightman.pdf. Original Title ISBN '9781400077809' published on '1992-' in Edition Language: ' English'. In a third, time reverses unexpectedly in a fourth, it stutters and skips. Download Book 'Einstein's Dreams' by Author 'Alan Lightman' in PDF EPUB. Each dream embodies ``one of the many possible natures of time.'' In one world time proceeds in circles in another its rate varies with location. The people in Lightman’s vignettes have a common problem: how to slow down time whether to hold onto youth or save a moment for eternity. Science writer Lightman ( A Modern Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court ) seems to have mastered this principle: his slender but substantial fictional debut is a daring re-creation of Einstein's dreams during May and June 1905, when the Swiss patent clerk was putting the final touches on his special theory of relativity. In Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman criticizes people’s struggles to hold onto time through hyperbole, nameless characters, average themes and simplistic syntax. Urn:oclc:822976632 Republisher_date 20171021134122 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 821 Scandate 20171014092123 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Shipping_container SZ0024 Tts_version v1.Few endeavors are more beguiling than a grossly improbable conceit realized with subtlety and wit. Urn:lcp:einsteinsdreams00ligh_0:epub:48f3e78c-3b28-42f3-a0f6-36d09d909c1b Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier einsteinsdreams00ligh_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0fv2kk8q Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780679416463ĩ3027403 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL1743281M Openlibrary_edition

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Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman