Time Reborn

Science & Math

LEE SMOLIN

Astronomy & Space Science

Penguin??Books

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

Review\n"Einstein's Unfinished Revolution is at its best when it's laying out these foundations for the realist vs. anti-realist arguments. Smolin's description of how quantum mechanics works is both elegant and accessible using real world examples. . . . If you want to understand the basic issues at hand in these long running debates, as well at least one line of alternative, you will enjoy this book. . . . I deeply enjoyed Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. . . . Smolin so clearly and expertly articulates his position that Einstein's Unfinished Revolution becomes useful whether you agree, disagree or just want to learn some very cool ideas about physics and reality." --Adam Frank, NPR 
"Smolin is never less than an inventive and provocative thinker, as well as an engaging writer. . . . [H]is explanations are especially lucid." --Philip Ball, Physics World 
"A tantalizing glimpse of the theoretical possibilities beyond Einstein's grasp." --Booklist (starred review) 
"[A]mbitious . . .upbeat and, finally, optimistic . . . Smolin is a lucid expositor."--Graham Farmelo, Nature 
"Full of extraordinary ideas . . . For anyone who would like the world to make sense, Lee Smolin's proposition is appealing."--The Times (UK) 
"Smolin elucidates complex science without equations . . . [and] demonstrates there isn't a thing in nature whose 'contemplation cannot be a route to a wordless sense of wonder and gratitude just to be a part of it all.'" --Publishers Weekly 
"This is a book about what it's like to treat life as an uncompromising search for the nature of reality. It is about physics, but also our historical moment. Do we essentially know everything already? Are we only cleaning up details and consolidating our powers, or is humanity still mostly ignorant? Smolin starts with a scrupulously fair telling of recent ideas in physics, and then accelerates into a vision of the future of physics. Sentences that are as simple as possible, like elementary particles, populate the closing argument. Read them slowly. They cut deep." --Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget 
"The best explanation yet of what has yet to be explained." --George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral 
"Lee Smolin has written a superb and sweeping book. He takes us to Bohr, Bohm, Everett and far beyond in a masterful assessment, then on to the struggle to go beyond quantum mechanics towards quantum gravity. Einstein's Unfinished Revolution is truly a fine work." --Stuart Kauffman, author of At Home in the Universe\nFrom Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics, a daring new vision of the universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that will illuminate our future. 
Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of our world--atoms, radiation, elementary particles, basic forces and the behavior of materials. But for a century it has also been the problem child of science, plagued by intense disagreements between its inventors, strange paradoxes, and implications that seem like the stuff of fantasy. 
In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin takes us on a journey through the basics of quantum physics, introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have transformed our understanding of the universe, before wrestling with the puzzles and conundrums that the quantum world presents. Along the way, he illuminates the existing theories that might solve these problems, guiding us towards a vision of the quantum that embraces common sense realism. 
Vibrant and accessible, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution brings us a step closer to resolving one of the greatest scientific controversies of our age.

History & Philosophy

Vintage Books Canada

Three Roads To Quantum Gravity (Science Masters Series)

Basic Books

From one of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals, a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles—come down to the nature of time. The fact that time is real may seem obvious. You experience it passing every day when you watch clocks tick, bread toast, and children grow. But most physicists, from Newton to Einstein to today’s quantum theorists, have seen things differently. The scientific case for time being an illusion is formidable. That is why the consequences of adopting the view that time is real are revolutionary. Lee Smolin, author of the controversial bestseller The Trouble with Physics, argues that a limited notion of time is holding physics back. It’s time for a major revolution in scientific thought. The reality of time could be the key to the next big breakthrough in theoretical physics. What if the laws of physics themselves were not timeless? What if they could evolve? Time Reborn offers a radical new approach to cosmology that embraces the reality of time and opens up a whole new universe of possibilities. There are few ideas that, like our notion of time, shape our thinking about literally everything, with huge implications for physics and beyond—from climate change to the economic crisis. Smolin explains in lively and lucid prose how the true nature of time impacts our world.

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

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Allen Lane.

The Trouble with Physics

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