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100	1		_aYourgrau, Palle
245	1	2	_aA world without time _b: the forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein _c/ Palle Yourgrau
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Basic Books _c, c2005.
300			_aviii, 210 p., [4] p. of plates _b: ill., ports. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.
505	0	0	_aA conspiracy of silence -- A German bias for metaphysics -- Vienna: logical circles -- A spy in the house of logic -- It's hard to leave Vienna -- Amid the demigods -- The scandal of big "T" and little "t" -- Twilight of the gods -- In what sense is Gödel (or anyone else) a philosopher?
520			_aFor 15 years two men, one made like a rapier, the other looking like a pile of laundry, walked together to their respective homes through the Princeton campus, talking as only consummate academics can. In his last years on earth, Einstein would go to his office just to have these walks home. Perhaps he could see a future in which Gödel, the rapier and the world's greatest logician, would run out of time and leave this planet weighing, by his own choice, only 65 pounds. In their walks Gödel concluded that time, which Einstein showed not to exist on theoretical worlds, did not exist in this one either. Yourgrau (philosophy, Brandeis U.) explains the time they had together, and how Gödel's resulting paper on this crucial aspect of relativity has fared amongst physicists and philosophers.
600	1	0	_aEinstein, Albert _d, 1879-1955
600	1	0	_aGödel, Kurt
650		0	_aTime _x--History _y--20th century
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