Peter Galison Great Teachers

Is time defined by physics, or fundamentally technology, or philosophy Peter Galison discusses the historical context of Einstein s discoveries and how they have affected modern notions of time and space. Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in the Department of the History of Science, and the Department of Physics. Galison s work explores the complex interaction between three principal subcultures of twentieth century physics experimentation, instrumentation, and theory. He is