Book Review #5: "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman

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This is the masterpiece of classics, over all worlds of time. This is my first read of Alan Lightman, and I think I found my favorite genre. Yes, I was literally hanging around, among different genres till now, picking up everything, tossing over all perceptions and calculations of liking factors. I have read few pieces earlier, e.g. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, etc. But after this, I am obsessed!

Author has set the boundaries of time, in an infinite possibility of universe. The one which you can imagine, the one which you will never imagine but pulled along with it, and the one you do not want to imagine!

This is an arranged form of dreams, with hypothesis of time. Alan has squeezed the gist of time, with Einstein’s relativity of his one of the patent work dimensions.

Talking about the contents, Alan has depicted more than 30 types of assumptions and existence of time. These short stories are not restricted to the person or place, it has some another level of equations with different dimension of worlds. This is not Multiverse, this is dream. A dream where anything can be the reality, and any reality can be a myth. I personally like few sections, where author has imitated many questions, which has no base, still it holds the essence of possible actions.

Every conception will lead you to chew over, and to start observing the world of uncertainties. Why is time constantly moving? Why there is a constant urge of knowing the future before time.? How time functions? What are the broader prospects of it? Is it possible to hold time for a reason? Do we really construct the world based on mechanical time frame? What if there is no time at all? These are just a teaser for what this book has to offer your brain.

I loved the aura of writing mosaic. Alan Lightman is a true artist, who molded the frames of physics of facts into fictional tales. And the best part is the tiniest details with which he has explained the description of each world.

Must read for all fiction readers, specially those who travel through imagination, not through quantitative barriers!


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