Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of...
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Author: Lee Smolin
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Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Smolin, Lee

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Dhs. 101.31

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Dhs. 101.31
Author: Lee Smolin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of time, and explores its implications for everything from physics and cosmology to economics and climate change.

What is time?

It's the sort of question we rarely ask because it seems so obvious. And yet, to a physicist, time is simply a human construct and an illusion: if you could somehow get outside the universe and observe it from there, you would see that every moment has always existed and always will. Lee Smolin disagrees, and in Time Reborn he lays out the case why.

Developments in physics and cosmology point toward the reality of time and the openness of the future. Smolin's groundbreaking theory postulates that physical laws can evolve over time and the future is not yet determined. Newton's fundamental laws may not remain so fundamental. Time Reborn serves as a popular primer and investigation of time, both what it is and how the true nature of it impacts our world.

"...at once entertaining, thought-provoking, fabulously ambitious and fabulously speculative."--New York Times Book Review

"He challenges not only Einstein's relativity, but also the very notion of natural laws as immutable truths."--Economist

"One of the essential books of the twenty-first century . . . Smolin provides a much-needed dose of clarity about time, with implications that go far beyond physics to economics, politics, and personal philosophy."--Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget

Author: Lee Smolin
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/08/2014
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780544245594


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/25/2014 pg. 28

About the Author
LEE SMOLIN has made influential contributions to the search for a unification of physics. He is a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His previous books include The Trouble with Physics and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity.

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