El físico y el filósofo

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the concept of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a superficial and psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized Einstein's theory as a metaphysics grafted onto science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of time. The physicist and philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and fueled a gap between science and the humanities that persists today. Jimena Canales presents in this work the revolutionary ideas of Einstein and Bergson, their subsequent collision and the repercussions of this clash. A masterful and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was put to the test in a divided century, marked by a new sense of time.