The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the search for hidden universes by Richard Panek, Viking, $24.95, ISBN 0670030740 Reviewed by Marcus Chown
JOURNALIST and novelist Richard Panek has a great command of the revolutionary thinking of Freud and Einstein, and The Invisible Century is beautifully written.
But I couldn’t help wondering as I read it. Is linking Einstein and Freud shoe-horning together two stories that, despite intriguing parallels, do not entirely fit together?
Panek’s thesis is that both Einstein and Freud taught us to look beyond observation into hidden universes of space and time, and the mind. He believes that this was a subtle but hugely…
