Mimpi-Mimpi Einstein (Einstein's Dreams)
by Alan Lightman
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Read in July, 2008
What a fun, fast (relatively..pun intended) and thought-provoking read! Lightman presents easily over 20+ depictions of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Each little vignette unveils a different world of how to perceive time. If time were crystal ball, Lightman looks at this crystal ball from above, below, upside down, inside out, backwards, forward etc. Although some of the stories weren’t incredibly captivating — most were and I would suggest this book to any artist visual/musical/literar...more
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lovers and haters of time or the lack thereof
this is one of the most amazing poetic explorations of einstein's theory of relativity i have ever read... technically it's considered a novel, but it's more like an essay collection in my opinion. i highly recommend this book. it gave me an entirely new perspective on viewing life and the meaning of "time".
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The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, ti...more
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The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, ti...more
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I read this book years ago, and I think one Christmas I bought one copy for each of my siblings. Very poetic. Very imaginative. Very liberating.
This is my review from awhile back, in Bahasa Indonesia:
Ini salah satu buku favorit saya. Terdiri atas penggalan-penggalan mimpi, atau imajinasi, tepatnya, tentang waktu, dan apa yang terjadi kalau waktu tidak berjalan seperti normalnya waktu yang kita jalani sekarang ini. Kalau kamu membayangkan suatu cerita yang berjalan dengan kronologi waktu ...more
This is my review from awhile back, in Bahasa Indonesia:
Ini salah satu buku favorit saya. Terdiri atas penggalan-penggalan mimpi, atau imajinasi, tepatnya, tentang waktu, dan apa yang terjadi kalau waktu tidak berjalan seperti normalnya waktu yang kita jalani sekarang ini. Kalau kamu membayangkan suatu cerita yang berjalan dengan kronologi waktu ...more
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Read in August, 2007
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anyone
Einstein's Dreams shows through stories the different traps in time that people fall into in life. Dwelling on the past, Living in the present, or focusing on the future are fine when done with a healthy balance but can become a pitfall if any single time past, present, or future, is given more emphasis than the next.
The Chapter 3 May 1905 illustrates what I believe is wrong with our society. It asks the age old question about which came first the chicken or the egg, or put another way, ...more
The Chapter 3 May 1905 illustrates what I believe is wrong with our society. It asks the age old question about which came first the chicken or the egg, or put another way, ...more
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Read in August, 2005
Sometimes when there are too many good things to say about a book, it is hard to say anything at all. Does that make any sense?
My brother recommended this book to me. I asked him nonchalantly, "What book is the book you always buy for friends?"
So that began my obsession with Einstein's Dreams.
My brother told me it was a unique read, a read that makes you think and think and think, so I spent a sticky, summer week in Union Square, pretty much just devouring the words.
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My brother recommended this book to me. I asked him nonchalantly, "What book is the book you always buy for friends?"
So that began my obsession with Einstein's Dreams.
My brother told me it was a unique read, a read that makes you think and think and think, so I spent a sticky, summer week in Union Square, pretty much just devouring the words.
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Read in January, 1995
recommends it for:
SciFi & Historical Fiction Fans
Great quick read broken up into easy small portions. Written by a physicist; it imagines the dreams that might have inspired Einstein to come up with his brilliant advances while still a patent clerk in Bern.
The author puts lots of love into the writing. Einstein is a fascinating figure and these dreams serve to illustrate the ideas he introduced to science. Plus Einstein comes out as very human with plenty of anxieties and sadnesses that we all go through. It's also trippy as all get out s...more
The author puts lots of love into the writing. Einstein is a fascinating figure and these dreams serve to illustrate the ideas he introduced to science. Plus Einstein comes out as very human with plenty of anxieties and sadnesses that we all go through. It's also trippy as all get out s...more
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I read this book once a year. It is a masterpiece.
I am constantly in awe of Lightman's ability to astound through his writing and premise. The worlds he creates in each dream are unlike anything I've read or seen. They are so imaginative, and he does so in only a few tiny little pages, where most authors would need hundreds of pages, or dozens of volumes in a series to do less. It's like Lightman has made a reduction of speculative fiction, and written it with only the barest essential elem...more
I am constantly in awe of Lightman's ability to astound through his writing and premise. The worlds he creates in each dream are unlike anything I've read or seen. They are so imaginative, and he does so in only a few tiny little pages, where most authors would need hundreds of pages, or dozens of volumes in a series to do less. It's like Lightman has made a reduction of speculative fiction, and written it with only the barest essential elem...more
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recommends it for:
thinkers, philosophers, experimenters
I first found this charming little book in a London, England, art museum. Later, it became popular in the states. This book is a mind-bender. It discusses the issue of time. Each chapter changes how time is measured and how we may reflect our lives in the mirror of this time-window. For example, what if one day lasted a lifetime? What if the small things in life were most important? In essence, the author turns time upside down, stretches it, shortens it, twists it ... and we get to see how we'd...more
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I don't remember this book well enough to write a full review. But over a decade after reading it, one of the ideas presented in it has stayed with me. That idea was that there are people who function according to the rhythms of their bodies, and those who function according to the rhythms of the clock. The book suggested that a person can be one or the other, but not both. At the time I read it, I was in the process of shifting away from my clock-based life, and things have never quite been...more
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a very fun read, easily achivable in one sitting, that delves into different ways of looking at and percieving time. not a true book about einstien, but it uses his name with a little artistic licence. imagine a place where time flows faster at a lower elevation, and much slower at a higher elevation, or imagine if time flowe unevenly like a thick past slattered in uneven intervals so that on one street corner, it was the dark ages, and acroos the street, the future. good read.
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Lightman (an eerily appropriate last name for a physicist writing about Einstein and his accomplishments) manages to fashion poetry out of physics in a manner that is not ridiculous, absurd or horridly po-mo. The end result is a melancholy little book that meditates upon the fragility of day to day human experience and conceals a certain literary weight behind a light read pace.
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i read this for the first time in high school, when i was very impressionable. my girlfriend left on a snowboarding trip and gave me this book to read while she was gone. i read about 70% of this book in the bathtub in one sitting. this book probably isn't the only reason i got a science degree, but it was one of them. thanks alan lightman.
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Read in October, 2008
recommends it for:
Fans of thinking
A totally cerebral experience like none that I've had in reading. I was mildly surprised by Lightman's confident prose, a rugged sort of poetry whose descriptions are sometimes breathtaking.
The book lays bare several variations on our conception of time in physical dimensions, yet this experiment in pure thought is used mostly to highlight our prolonged loneliness and those rare flashes of intense joy that sometimes do occur among human beings. The many scientific "parables" roamin...more
The book lays bare several variations on our conception of time in physical dimensions, yet this experiment in pure thought is used mostly to highlight our prolonged loneliness and those rare flashes of intense joy that sometimes do occur among human beings. The many scientific "parables" roamin...more
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dalam mimpi einstein kita akan bermain2 dengan waktu...
teori relativitas waktu yang [sebenarnya:] saat ini sudah tidak berlaku
akibat ditemukannya benda yang lebih kecil dr elektron yang mempunya kecepatan melebihi chaya yang tidak dapat dibayangkan sebelumnya oleh manusia...
wallahu a'lam bishowab...
teori relativitas waktu yang [sebenarnya:] saat ini sudah tidak berlaku
akibat ditemukannya benda yang lebih kecil dr elektron yang mempunya kecepatan melebihi chaya yang tidak dapat dibayangkan sebelumnya oleh manusia...
wallahu a'lam bishowab...
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recommends it for:
Every Single person on the planet and beyond
Exquisite, Everyone should read this book, everyone should give this book away, it should be thrown from rooftops and forced upon youngsters. This book is excellent, beautiful and amazing, if a book is universially capabale of changing your life... if only for a moment... this is such a book.
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It was OK. I read it a few years ago but don't really remember much of it. Apparently, there are two more of me somewhere in space and time, but our paths will never cross because they are traveling along different time axes than I. Those bastards.
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Read in January, 2003
This is an amazing little book. I saw this on someone's desk at work a few years ago, and decided to buy a copy for myself. You can read it in an afternoon but it will make you think about the illusive nature of time for a long time. I loved it!
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Everybody must read this book at least once in their life! I've read it many times . . . it is mind-expanding . . .
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Read in January, 2001
recommends it for:
People who like to expand their minds and have a different way of viewing things.
When everything fails, use your imagination.
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recommends it for: everyone
recommends it for: everyone
This is a fantastic book. Not only does it effectively explore how humans live in terms of time (and thus simulate the kind of dreams Einstein might have had while formulating his Theory of Time), the book blends that intense perception of temporal structures with a wide understanding and breadth of human emotion, so that every page reveals worlds of humanity that could definitely be--and more often than not, that actually exist in people we all know.
My uncle told me that he knows of a play...more
My uncle told me that he knows of a play...more
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