Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before.
As a theoretical physicist, he has contributed several key ideas to the search for a unification of quantum theory, cosmology, and relativity..
About the Author: Lee Smolin is Professor of Physics at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University.
But it is the humanity and sharp clarity of his prose that offers access for the layperson to the mind bending space at the forefront of today\'s physics.
The result would be a cosmology according to which Life is a natural consequence of the fundamental principles on which the universe has been built, and a science that would give us a picture of the universe in which, as the author writes, "the occurrence of novelty, indeed the perpetual birth of novelty, can be understood." Smolin is one of the leading cosmologists at work today, and he writes with an expertise and force of argument that will command attention throughout the world of physics.
Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of physics, favoring those universes which best reproduce.
Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through black holes, each of which may result in a new big bang and a new universe.
Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before
