by Lee Smolin
“I propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless truths and timeless realms are mythology.” In “Time Reborn - From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe” by Lee Smolin Impermanence, Buddhist style? Buddhism seems to ackno...
There is not a wasted concept in this book. The author explains everything you need to understand about time and why he thinks it is real and how modern physics has taken it out of the equation. He starts with defining mathematics as the study of the unchanging. Math (in the Platonic/Western Thought...
An interesting talk by Smolin, apparently of the ideas outlined in this book, can be found in this link, with an equally interesting comment by Sean M. Carroll:http://www.edge.org/conversation/think-about-nature
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...
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