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Book Review of Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams
Einstein's Dreams
Author: Alan Lightman
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 4


This book is written by a CalTech graduate and MIT physics professor. It is basically a collection of short stories, except none of the stories actually has a plot. Each story is a fictional dream that a young Einstein had about time. Each dream is set in a different universe in which some aspect of time is slightly different from how we understand it to be and each story is a glimpse into that universe. Most of the stories are actually very interesting in a thought-provoking kind of way.