Jimena Canales
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Una mirada fascinante al debate que cambió nuestra percepción de una de las características más fundamentales del universo: el tiempo.
El 6 de abril de 1922, en París, Albert Einstein y Henri Bergson debatieron públicamente sobre el concepto del tiempo. Einstein consideraba que la teoría del tiempo de Bergson era una noción psicológica y superficial, irreconciliable con las realidades cuantitativas de la física. Bergson, quien ganó fama...
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"One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2015, chosen by Maria Popova" "One of The Independent.ie Irish Writers' Top Reads 2015" "One of Brainpickings' The Best Science Books of 2015" Jimena Canales holds the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truth
On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson...
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was born in Ulm in the German Empire and received his academic teaching diploma from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in 1900. Unable to secure a teaching post, he eventually found work in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, where he began to develop his special theory of relativity. In 1905 (his miracle year), he published four revolutionary papers, which came to be recognized as stunning breakthroughs in physics. For...
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Jimena Canales is a writer and faculty member of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois and associate professor at Harvard University. She is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time (Princeton) and A Tenth of a Second. She lives in Boston. Twitter...