swingbeat: 22/26: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

It was only after I finished the book that I found out that he is a lecturer at MIT :). I kinda can see that though :).

This short book is really a series of short descriptoins of worlds. It's about the possible worlds that Einstein would have had before he came up with his theory of relativity. For example, what if time flows backwards on some world? What if time slowed down the farther up you are? What type of worlds/societies would come out of it? The societies he describes come out of anecdotal stories, not just descriptions of the worlds. Sometimes he'd describe a situation that some character is feeling, or some society, and let the reader figure out what the "time-rule" was for this world, before revealing it.

This was a good book because it was a quick read. Each short chapter is self-encapuslating, so you can put it down and pick it up later. It won't change your life, but I recommend it ;)