Einstein's dreams

Alan P. Lightman · first published 1993 · ISBN 9780446670111

Lightman imagines Einstein troubled by dreams while developing the theory of relativity in 1905. The novel alternates between dream sequences that explore different conceptions of time and waking scenes of Einstein's daily life and work. Each dream presents a unique temporal scenario, from exaggerations of real relativistic phenomena to pure imagination, collectively affirming the revolutionary power of Einstein's theory.