What do clocks have to do with it?
John Banville: Einstein and Bergson, 14 July 2016
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
by Jimena Canales.
Princeton, 429 pp., £24.95, May 2015,978 0 691 16534 9 Show More
by Jimena Canales.
Princeton, 429 pp., £24.95, May 2015,
“... The occasion, attended by a number of eminent scientists and philosophers, had been intended, as Jimena Canales tells us, ‘as a cordial and scholarly event’; as it transpired, although much scholarship was on display, the supply of cordiality quickly ran out. From the outset Einstein was at a disadvantage, since the debate was conducted in French, a ... ”
