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A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy Of Godel And Einstein
by Palle Yourgrau

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• A World Without TIme
  Reviewed by: Stephen J. Hage
  Two of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein became friends in 1942. This book describes how intimate that friendship was and how they influenced each other's thinking.
  For people interested in pure mathematics the name Kurt Gödel is as famous as Albert Einstein. His incompleteness theorem shattered the efforts of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whithead in their attempt to write the definitive tome to end all tomes on... more info

• Great "introduction" to philosophy
  I've long attributed Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design with my personal introduction to contemporary philosophy, having avoided doing anything serious about my instinctive interest in philosophical questions for the first two thirds of my life. But it and everything else I've tackled since was difficult/sleep-inducing.
  Dropping in at my favourite meatspace bookshop to look for something else entirely, but with my mind recently focused on the idea of the eternal now, I... more info

• Buy this book only if you are ready to work on it.
  It is excellent book. But reading it is a hard work. Buy it only if you you are ready to work on this book. It is not an easy reading.

• Does Time Exist?
  The argument is that when they define "time" people demand that
  what is in the past is "gone forever", "no longer accessible."
  But since in general relativity it might at least be possible in
  principle to return to ANY arbitrary space-time point the suggestion
  is that WHAT PEOPLE MEAN BY "time" just doesn't exist.
  It seems to me, however, that people are constantly changing their
  definitions and concepts. Science is just one thing that may cause
  us to change our... more info

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