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What happens when the century's greatest logician meets the century's greatest physicist? In the case of Kurt Goedel and Albert Einstein, the result is Goedel's revolutionary new world models for relativity theory Although most famous for his Incompleteness Theorems in mathematical logic, Goedel was a philosopher in his own right, with a special interest in the philosophical problem of Time. Most people are unaware that Goedel and Einstein were close friends for many years at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Goedel extended Einstein's General Theory of Relativity with cosmological models-now known as Goedel Universes -with extraordinary properties, including the possibility of closed, timelike curves that allow the philosophical fantasy of time travel to become a scientific reality. For Goedel, however, the reality of time travel signals the unreality of time. If he's right, the real meaning of the Einstein revolution remained a secret for half a century and is only being revealed now.Product Identifiers
PublisherOpen Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
ISBN-139780812694086
eBay Product ID (ePID)90116535
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGodel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Godel Universe
Publication Year1999
SubjectScience, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics
TypeTextbook
AuthorPalle Yourgrau
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Weight425 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorPalle Yourgrau