Godel Meets Einstein : Time Travel in
the Godel Universe by Palle Yourgrau
Philosophy Of Time
What happens when the centurys greatest logician meets the centurys
greatest physicist ? In the case of Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein the
result is Gödels revolutionary new world models for relativity theory. In
the Gödel Universe the philosophical fantasy of time travel becomes a
scientific reality. For Gödel, however, the reality of time travel signals the
unreality of time. If Gödel is right, the real meaning of the Einstein
revolution remained, for half a century, a secret. Now, half a century after
Gödel met Einstein, the real meaning of time travel in the Gödel Universe
can at last be revealed.
Personal Review: Godel Meets Einstein : Time Travel in the
Godel Universe by Palle Yourgrau
This absolutely riveting book delivers at two levels: first, it can serve for
any intelligent reader as an exhilirating introduction to most of the central

questions of philosophy--questions concerning time, truth, death, thought,
free will, and infinity, to mention just some of the ground covered. Second
(and this is what makes it such an astonishing book) it offers, in the context
of its luminously clear and helpful discussions of these issues, a series of
original and profound philosophical results. Many of these insights in effect
open a new chapter in the domains they deal with (see, for example,
Yourgrau's powerfully argued rejection of the standard way of
understanding both existence (represented in logic these days by the
'existential quantifer') and infinity (esp., the sum of an infinite convergent
series). In reading the book you are given a front row seat onto all of this--
some of the newest, most surprising, and most fundamental work in
philosophy. Those coming to the book from physics (i.e. the 'Einstein' end
of things) will, I suspect, be refreshed by the idea of a harmonious and
fruitful relationship between philosophy and science that infuses the book
(after all, Einstein and Godel talked philosophy AND physics). In short, an
extraordinary book not to be missed.
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