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Lee Smolin is Professor of Physics at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. As a theoretical physicist, he has contributed several key ideas to the search for a unification of quantum theory, cosmology, and relativity.
"The argument is as mentally thrilling as shooting Niagara in a
dishpan, plunging the reader into a dizzying no-man's land between
physics and metaphysics."--Curt Suplee, The Washington Post
"It's great fun to see the implications of this fantastic idea laid
out by so original a thinker.... Smolin makes some of the strongest
arguments I've seen that understanding the universe will require a
serious search for some kind of laws of complexity."--George
Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
"One of the more informed imaginative thinkers of our time, Lee
Smolin, has set forth a challenging exploration of natural
philosophy. This book will surely change your thinking about some
things, maybe about everything."--Harold J. Morowitz, Director,
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
"Smolin is a deep and original thinker. In this provocative book he
merges key elements of Einstein and Darwin in a breathtaking
synthesis. The result is nothing less than a radically new view of
the cosmos and our place within it."--Paul Davies
"Lee Smolin's The Life of the Cosmos is a fascinating book. Its
central theme is an extraordinary speculative idea, but very well
argued for. There is wealth of interesting and informative
accompanying material here--as one would expect from an author of
such breadth and depth of physical understanding."--Roger
Penrose
"In The Life of the Cosmos Lee Smolin asks some of the most
fundamental unanswered questions in cosmology and physics. A
wonderful book--indeed a thrilling book. Read it."--Stuart
Kauffman
"If you have a willingness to exercise your mind by entertaining a
more interdisciplinary view of the universe as a grand evolutionary
system, then The Life of the Cosmos is the kind of book you will
want to read--one that describes our universe as a more holistic,
interrelated ecosystem of galaxies, stars, planets and life."--The
Philadelphia Inquirer
"The argument is as mentally thrilling as shooting Niagara in a
dishpan, plunging the reader into a dizzying no-man's land between
physics and metaphysics."--Curt Suplee, The Washington Post
"In The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin...tackles some of the
biggest questions imaginable, outlining a theory that explains not
only where our universe comes from but also what makes its
hospitable to life."--Tim Folger, iscover
"This thought-provoking book is much more broad-ranging and
considered than most of those that tackle fundamental issues of
cosmology. It is well worth reading, and is highly recommended to
scientists and nonscientists."--Nature
"It's great fun to see the implications of this fantastic idea laid
out by so original a thinker.... Smolin makes some of the strongest
arguments I've seen that understanding the universe will require a
serious search for some kind of laws of complexity."--George
Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
"I am very grateful to the editors of Mathematical Reviews for
asking me to write a review of such a beautiful, interesting,
irritating, and mind-blowing book as The life of the cosmos by Lee
Smolin. It took me a long time to read the book even once--still
I'm sure I'm going to read it at least twice. What makes this book
so fascinating to read but so hard to write a reasonably compact
review of is that it is an ingenious mixture of fantasy,
physics, mathematics, astronomy, biology, philosophy, and even
sociology."--Mathematical Reviews
"Smolin is a thought-provoking theorist."--Kirkus
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