Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
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Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
The concepts of “stasis” and “motion” are much more complex than our everyday experience indicates. Similarly, with his theory of special relativity, Einstein understands that the idea of simultaneity—of “now”—is not absolute either, but instead relative to the observer’s state of motion.
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