Time Reborn

From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Author Lee Smolin

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Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real.

Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing…

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October 8, 2013

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LEE SMOLIN is a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute in Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario. A theoretical physicist and writer, he has greatly advanced to our understanding of space, time and cosmology. A co-inventor of loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity and the inventor of cosmological natural selection, his work has contributed significantly to the fields of quantum theory, particle physics, theoretical biology, economics and the philosophy of science. He is a member of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Previously, he held faculty positions at Yale, Syracuse and Penn State. On a popular level, he has written thee previous books, Time Reborn, The Trouble with Physics, and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, which bring to the public…