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In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein became close
friends; they walked to and from their offices every day,
exchanging ideas about science, philosophy, politics, and the lost
world of German science. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable
proof: "In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time
cannot exist," Einstein endorsed this result reluctantly but he
could find no way to refute it, since then, neither has anyone
else. Yet cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded as if
this discovery was never made. In "A World Without Time," Palle
Yourgrau sets out to restore Godel to his rightful place in
history, telling the story of two magnificent minds put on the
shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to
rescue the brilliant work they did together.
What happens when the country's greatest logician meets the
century's greatest physicist? In the case of Kurt Godel and Albert
Einstein the result in Godel's revolutioinary new model of the
cosmos. In the 'Godel Universe' the philosophical fantasy of time
travel becomes a scientific reality. For Godel, however, the
reality of time travel signals the unreality of time. If Godel is
right, the real meaning of the Einstein revolution had remained,
for half a century, a secret. Now, half-century after Godel met
Einstein, the real meaning of time travel in the Godel universe can
be revealed.
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