Time Reborn, Lee Smolin
Time Reborn, Lee Smolin
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Time Reborn
From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Author: Lee Smolin

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/28/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics, Time


Synopsis

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.

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

The sense of beauty leads us astray. - James Joyce, UlyssesPhysics is in a strange state right now. On the surface, things may seem to be going well; the elusive Higgs particle was detected for the first time last year, and there are interesting signs that we may soon discover what dark matter is mad......more

Goodreads review by Brian

As I write this we are a third of the way through 2013 (time is important here) and I can say with hand on heart this is the best popular science book I have read all year. Lee Smolin’s book is largely accessible (more on this later) and simply mind-boggling in its scope. What he does here is take on......more

Goodreads review by Gendou

There is something essential about the Now which is just outside the realm of science. Smolin argues that time is real, because he experiences it, as a sequence of moments. He claims this is evidence not accounted for in the standard Newtonian paradigm (i.e. Plato's timeless mathematical world).......more