[lbryce]

If I had the opportunity to pick a stellar, fundamental subject, discussion of our time between the universally acknowledged,quintessential genius/experts in their respective fields, I would find it very difficult to choose one as perfectly matched, appropriate to the objective sought, as this particular article attempts to fulfill.

[lbryce]

Einstein vs Bergson, Science vs Philosophy and the Meaning of Time ping

[cripplecreek]

When science and religion weren't at war.

Einstein didn't buy LaMatre's theory of an expanding universe till Hubbel proved the priest to be correct.

[Yardstick]

*bump*

The article is a good read and the sound clip is a good listen.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Einstein asserted that time could only be measured by observing events, like the progression of the hands of a clock. It appears that Bergson imputed psychological time with physical significance beyond what it could support. When I started the article, I thought the Henry that Einstein was going to confront was Henri Poincaré, who came within a hairs breadth of inventing relativity, except he could not give up the psychologically grounded notions of absolute time and absolute space. Same could be said for another Henry, Hendrik Lorentz, who actually had devised the Lorentz transform, which Einstein independently reinvented. Lorentz became a friend and supporter of Einstein.

[Chainmail]

Time ping.

[Flick Lives]

Star physicist Stephen Hawking even declared the end of philosophy in 2011.

Yet another arrogant pronouncement by Hawking. You'd think physicists who consider the infinite scope of the universe, looking outward or inward might have a little more humility about the limit of their current knowledge.

[mjp]

In a theoretical nutshell this expressed perfectly the division between lived time and spacetime: subjective experience versus objective reality.

Both are right. Pain or boredom makes subjectively experienced time seem to pass slowly, while fun and excitement makes time seem to pass quickly. While the objective time for both as measured by a clock are the same.That is a hypnotic trance called time distortion.

[FatherofFive]

Some supporters went as far as to say that Bergson’s earlier work anticipated the quantum revolution of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg by four decades or more.

Heisenberg was stopped for doing 85 in a 45mph zone. The sheriff shouted “Do you know how fast you were going?” Heisenberg replied, “No, but I know where I am.”