“IF I WERE GOD”: EINSTEIN AND RELIGION.
Designed as an introductory lecture for the conference “Einstein, God and Time,” this essay provides a brief survey of three sets of relations—between Einstein and time, God and time, and Einstein and God. The question is raised whether Einstein's rejection of absolute time held any implications for...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 941 - 955 |
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