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In poetic vignettes, Einstein's Dreams explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
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, and people are fated to repeat their 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.
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.
En 1905, mientras trabajaba en una modesta oficina de patentes en la tranquila ciudad suiza de Berna, el joven Albert Einstein esbozaba su teoría de la relatividad, una nueva concepción del tiempo. Inspirándose en estos humildes inicios, el físico y escritor Alan Lightman imagina a un Einstein de ficción que cada noche sueña con mundos en los que el tiempo se rige de maneras diferentes. En un mundo, el tiempo se congela en el momento en el que somos más felices, en otro, el tiempo transcurre hacia atrás o bien avanza más rápido en un barrio que en otro. Sueña también qué sucedería si conociéramos el fin del mundo de antemano, si no tuviéramos recuerdos o si no tuviéramos futuro. Los treinta breves relatos que forman este volumen abordan de forma poética cómo una u otra concepción del tiempo condicionaría de manera radical la actuación del ser humano.
añadido por Katya0133 | editarVirginia Quarterly Review(Jun 1, 1993)
The dreams do more than just catalog our neuroses. They also underscore some fundamental conflicts in the human relationship to time.
añadido por Katya0133 | editarTechnology Review, David Brittan(May 1, 1993)
THIS book contains 30 brief fictional dreams. All are about time, and all are dreamt by Albert Einstein in Berne, in the spring and early summer of 1905, as he works on his paper 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' and proceeds inefficiently towards the special theory of relativity. Some contain distorted traces of his discoveries. In one dream, people live up mountains and build their houses on stilts, having discovered that time flows relatively more slowly as one moves further from the centre of the earth. In another, banks, factories and houses are all motorised and constantly on the move, for time is money and slows down as you accelerate, so the faster you go the more you have.
This book is a joy . . . It bridges disciplines by linking intellectual understanding with the kind of relaxing enjoyment to be expected from a good novel.
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In some distant arcade, a clock tower calls out six times and the stops.
Citas
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"It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy."
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He feels empty, and he stares without interest at the tiny black speck and the Alps.
In poetic vignettes, Einstein's Dreams explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
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, and people are fated to repeat their 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.
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.
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