What happens when the country's greatest logician meets the century's greatest physicist? In the case of Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein the result in Godel's revolutioinary new model of the cosmos. In the 'Godel Universe' the philosophical fantasy of time travel becomes a scientific reality. For Godel, however, the reality of time travel signals the unreality of time. If Godel is right, the real meaning of the Einstein revolution had remained, for half a century, a secret. Now, half-century after Godel met Einstein, the real meaning of time travel in the Godel universe can be revealed.
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1 Godel's challenge to cosmology; 2 Godel's idealism; 3 Time travel and the Godel universe; 4 Not everything can be relativized; 5 Formalization and representation, Modeling the open future - Aristotle and modern logic, Frege and the decontextualization of thought; 6 Being and time, Time and infinity, Being and existence, Decontextualization in a general setting, Temporal mathematics; 7 Godel's philosophical achievement.
