Godel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Godel Universe

by Palle Yourgrau

What happens when the country's greatest logician meets the century's greatest physicist? In the case of Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein the result in Godel's revolutioinary new model of the cosmos. In the 'Godel Universe' the philosophical fantasy of time travel becomes a scientific reality. For Godel, however, the reality of time travel signals the unreality of time. If Godel is right, the real meaning of the Einstein revolution had remained, for half a century, a secret. Now, half-century after Godel met Einstein, the real meaning of time travel in the Godel universe can be revealed

Genres: Science, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Physics, Biography, History

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 17, 1999

Reviews

[Mahesh Vee]

Two unlikely characters meet, walk and play with their minds.