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Einstein-Bergson Time Debate

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1922

Albert Einstein6 April 1922

Paris · Science / Physics

Debates Henri Bergson over the meaning of time, confronting philosophical objections to the operational treatment of simultaneity in special relativity.

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Albert Einstein

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