Top 5 Favorite Books: Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman – #4
My Top Five Favorite Books
Number Four
Einstein’s Dreams
by Alan Lightman
Einstein’s Dreams is a horrible, horrible book to take with you on long flight. This one time I was flying from Portland, Oregon to Reno, Nevada and I picked this book to keep me entertained on the flight. I ended up reading the entire thing before even getting on the plane. What can I say? I couldn’t put it down. There is no real story in this book. Instead it’s a collection of different ideas about how time could work.
What is the book about?
Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.
Why is it in my top five?
It’s very, very interesting. I like the different concepts of time that the book puts forth. My favorite one is where time moves slower if a person is in a state of motion. So people who sit around will age faster while the more active people will stay younger and live longer. In this world, people put wheels on their house to keep them moving even while they sleep. Plus, like I implied earlier, it’s a quick read. Since it’s essentially a collection of time-themed fables it’s easy to pick up and read a story or two before bed.
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