{"id":203,"date":"2003-03-28T21:15:23","date_gmt":"2003-03-29T02:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=203"},"modified":"2003-03-28T21:15:23","modified_gmt":"2003-03-29T02:15:23","slug":"lightman_alan_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/lightman_alan_e\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightman, Alan: Einstein&#8217;s Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"200063689\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_200063689\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>After going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/exhibitions\/einstein\/?src=h_h\">Einstein exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History<\/a>, I picked up <strong><cite>Einstein&#8217;s Dreams<\/cite>, by Alan Lightman<\/strong>, for a re-read. This is a series of fictional vignettes about Einstein&#8217;s dreams about different kinds of time, which was moderately well-known when it was published. The last time I&#8217;d read it, I was confused about which of the vignettes was our reality; I thought there were two possibilities. This time I spotted the right one immediately; turns out that the other one I was thinking of had the right general idea, but on a wildly incorrect scale.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very short book, with prose that approaches poetry at points. I enjoy it for its unusual extrapolations of the social effects of different forms of time; many of them are improbable (like ours), but they do display imagination, and there&#8217;s some nice images. Harmless way to pass half an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After going to the Einstein exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, I picked up Einstein&#8217;s Dreams, by Alan Lightman, for a re-read. This is a series of fictional vignettes about Einstein&#8217;s dreams about different kinds of time, which was moderately well-known when it was published. The last time I&#8217;d read it, I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/lightman_alan_e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lightman, Alan: Einstein&#8217;s Dreams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-lightman-alan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}