Einstein, Gödel, and Our Strange Experience of Time: Rebecca Goldstein on How Relativity Rattled the Flow of Existence
The Marginalian • 2/19/2026
Summary
Rebecca Goldstein discusses the impact of relativity on our understanding of time in her work titled "Einstein, Gödel, and Our Strange Experience of Time." The piece explores the intimate knowledge humans have of the fleetingness and transience of each moment.
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