Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

Author: Lee Smolin

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/14/2018

Synopsis

In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the fascinating stories behind these discoveries: the rivalries, epiphanies, and intrigues he witnessed firsthand.

About Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin is a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Royal Society of Canada, he received the 2009 Klopsteg Memorial Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is also the bestselling author of The Trouble with Physics, The Life of the Cosmos, and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny

Lee Smolin is one of the most interesting and controversial figures in modern physics. Establishment physicists often call him a maverick or worse. I am one of many laypeople who think that he's telling it like it is, and the mainstream people are full of s...trings. When he wrote this book, around......more

Goodreads review by Huyen

a nice, easy intro into quantum gravity for the interested: [URL not allowed]~visse... This book isn't too bad but I don't think I retain much. the feline analogy and cosmological evolution are cute ideas, and the black hole stuff is fascinating. but much of it is extremely speculative......more

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