Time Reborn

Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real.

Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real.

From the Hardcover edition.

Auteur

LEE SMOLIN is a senior faculty member and founder of the Perimeter Institute in Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario. A theoretical physicist and writer, he has greatly contributed to our understanding of space, time and cosmology. A co-inventor of loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity and the inventor of cosmological natural selection, his work has contributed to the foundations of quantum theory, particle physics, theoretical biology, economics and the philosophy of science. He is a member of the philosophy dept. at U of T. Previously he held faculty positions at Yale, Syracuse and Penn State. On a popular level, he has written 3 previous books which bring to the public his reflections on cosmology and physics. He lives in Toronto with his wife and small son.