Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

Forgot to mention I finished this book a couple of weeks ago. I very much enjoyed it. Don't feel like writing it up in detail or anything but it was a fascinating little romp thru the many doors that Einstein's theories/thoughts opened on time. It's a small book (179 pages) and comprised of a plethora of mini-chapters about 2-3 pages long each of which explains what the world would be like if time were like X .

Lightman teaches Physics and Writing at MIT which, as you would expect, produces a rare synergy.

A quote from one of the worlds: "The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone."

A blurb from the Chicago Tribune on the back cover which sums up my feelings about the book: "A wonderfully odd, clever, mystical book of meditations on time, poetically spare and delightfully fresh."