Godel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Godel Universe

by Palle Yourgrau

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812694082
• ISBN13: 9780812694086
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"