Einstein's Dreams Reality or Just Dreams
Time is an entity that almost everyone takes for granted, it has always been there and probably always will be. Friends and family will always come and go, and your life will go on. There are about sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in and hour and twenty-four hours a day, it's as simple as that - at least that is what I have always thought time was. Yet, Einstein thought of time in radically different ways. He didn't know what time was; he had many thoughts and dreams, many of which made me imagine what my life would be if these dreams were reality. I think that Einstein's Dreams truly shows the creative mind that Einstein possessed. In this novel, Einstein was a man who spent a good portion of his early life trying to define time. He conceptualized whether time was truly what we thought it was. Through the use of his imagination, Einstein dreamed of all of the possible answers to the question, "What is time?" Using these dreams, which he dreamt, he defined time in the last couple of months before his development of the theory of relativity. Within about thirty dreams, the author, Alan Lightman, gave us a tour through what Albert Einstein might have been thinking about in the months before he came up wi
Every dream in this book shows us a different perspective on time in the city of Bern, Switzerland. There are no actual identified characters, but just short stories about villagers, in a world with time, not as we know it, but as they experience it. There is also no plot is continuos though out the whole novel. Each chapter represents a whole new story, a new and innovative way of thinking and a new way of living life. This book was one of the most interesting books I have ever read, and I know that I will read it again in the future. I anticipated much less from this book when I first picked it up. I expected it to be more about science and math, but it turned out to be much more. I enjoyed reading it because, where ever you stopped you could just pick it right back up. I thought a lot about each entry, thinking of how it would be like living in that perception of time. I expect that I would not think anything of living in that period of time, because I would have known no other time. The entry on 20 May 1905, is the one I thought to be most interesting to contemplate. This dream is about mankind having no memory of their lives. Each day is literally a whole new day. When a man comes home from work, he meets his wife and children for the first time. Each person carries around something called the Book of Life. This book contains everything from the date of your birth, your parents, your wife, and where you work everyday. Each day you start out as if you were never here before; you know no one, and you do not know where you are. I think that this would be very difficult, but, if it were all I knew in my life, then it would not seem strange at all. My only fear would be losing my Book of Life. Anyone could find it, and then they would be you. This is because they would not remember their life before discovering your life. In conclusion, I enjoyed reading this book and feel that I do have a better understanding of Einstein and his thoughts about time. This book gave me an opportunity to reflect on my previous knowledge and let it grow while I was taking in what the novel was trying to portr
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Approximate Word count = 1451
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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