On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. The Physicist and the Philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists today. The Physicist and the Philosopher reveals how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of time.
Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time