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Science fans, hold on to your hats! Lee Smolin, a professor at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University, is about to take you on the ride of your life. Imagine, if you will, the theory of evolution applied to physics. What if our universe is so ideally adapted to life because it developed that way? What if ours is just one among many thousands of universes, all engaged in a cosmic survival-of-the-fittest struggle? These are just two of the wildly original theories Smolin posits in The Life of the Cosmos, in which Alice in Wonderland meets quantum physics. According to Smolin, the majority of today's physicists still regard physical laws as immutable, mathematical and eternally true--to them, the universe is an intricate mechanism, a cosmic clock. But what if the laws of physics aren't really "laws" at all, but rather an evolving, developing process of natural selection that began even before the Big Bang?
From Smolin's initial theory, it's a short step to black holes, alternate universes, string theory, gauge symmetry and knots--all complicated abstractions that Smolin describes and explains in a remarkably comprehensible way. Even if you don't agree with Smolin's science, his book makes for great mind-bending reading and more than a little food for thought. If nothing else, The Life of the Cosmos proves once and for all that there really is intelligent life on this planet. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Lee Smolin is not afraid to think big--really, really big. His theory of cosmic evolution by the natural selection of black-hole universes makes what we can experience into an infinitesimal, yet crucial, part of an ever-larger whole. Smolin says, "the new view of the universe is light, in all its senses, because what Darwin has given us, and what we may aspire to generalize to the cosmos as a whole, is a way of thinking about the world which is scientific and mechanistic, but in which the occurrence of novelty--indeed, the perpetual birth of novelty--can be understood." Other scientists are, to say the least, divided on whether Smolin has much chance of being right, but they agree with Paul Davies that he is "a deep and original thinker."
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This is a beautiful book, to be read by everyone who is fascinated by the ongoing quest to unify cosmology and particle physics. The author has a cute idea - that the familiar multiple universes undergo a process of evolution and natural selection - but he goes much further, into the philosophical foundations of quantum theory and the basic notions of space and time. I particularly enjoyed (and found convincing) his claim that we are living in a period, analogous to the early years of this century, when the shared ideas that have been so productive, have become inadequate. A new paradigm is needed, according to Smolin, one that takes into account the self-organizing properties of the Universe, and the inter-relationships between all of its components. One doesn't have to agree with the author to appreciate the originality of his ideas, the clarity of his arguments (masterful explanation of black holes, for instance) and his candid description of his own struggle to break away from conventional thinking about fundamental physics issues. Smolin thinks big, but he is not afraid to admit that his theories are not fully worked out, and that many scientists object to his ideas (I, for one, could not follow his rejection of fixed external physical laws, when his theory of incrementally evolving Universes seems to require just that). But no matter - anyone who wants to appreciate (without math!) what is really happening on the frontiers of physics should read this book. One gripe: the book is set in a font so tiny that it's almost unreadable.
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I loved reading this book. It offers a very compelling picture of how a universe can come into being without the need for a supernatural explanation. Worried about the problem of the fine-tuning of natural parameters which allow for the evolution of life? Not any more. Smolin paints a picture of a beautiful, evolving mega-universe that, because it evolves toward a black-hole friendly state, naturally evolves complex molecules and life. My only problem with the book is a short passage in the chapter on philosophy and religion. Smolin takes great pains to show how the Platonic picture of an absolute reality has gotten in the way of our progress. Yet, near the end of the chapter he allows that there may be some challenging questions that leave room for "mysticism." I view this as editor pressure to leave a small dash of hope for mystics. Smolin should have left out the reference and smashed the idea altogether. Mystery remains in his fabulous universe, but not mysticism.
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This is a delightful book, not merely because of its subject, but as much because we see Lee Smolin's skilled mind and personality at work. Work, however, it is. I had to read over several passages simply because I was unfamiliar with many of the concepts in quantum mechanics. The moderately determined mind will not be daunted by this and the reward is a vision of unfolding, evolving universes captured like chick embyos within the shell of black holes, hatched into a parallel reality. Dr. Smolin does us a service by giving us a beautiful thesis that connects our existence to that of our universe as never before
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A Scientist's Faith in Naturalsim Run Amuk
There is no question that this book is the product of an unbounded thinker of possibilities. Lee Smolin's opening description of the history and current state of theoretical... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. März 2000 von Deutsch
Provocative and Mesmerizing
I loved Smolin's provocative ideas. This book really stretched my thinking about this universe and the possibilitiy of other universes. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Deeper into the Cosmological Argument
Smolin attempts two things in this book: to put forth a novel idea of how the laws of nature have come to be as they are, and to develop for the non-expert reader the context of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
This book is not for physicists
As I said this is NOT for physicists. And "Cosmological Natural Selection" is nothing but a junk. There is so much philosophy in this book. Well, I didn't like it.
Am 29. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
The last book on cosmology you will ever read.
The lovely cover notwithstanding, there are no Creators here, finely smithing wind-up universes in silent sanctuary. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Question the way you view life by delving inside black holes
The first chapter was enough to make me momentarily consider selling all my belongings, moving to Pennsylvania, and becoming a Physics major at Penn State. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Would-be Philosopher Snubs Philosophy
Smolin's book is fascinating reading because it integrates so many diverse topics: physics, philosophy, art, mathematics. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Even in a relative world, this book's absolutely the best!
This is a wonderful book. Smolin proposes many original ideas and, while elaborating on them, clearly explains a wide variety of scientific concepts and their implications,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Perfect explanation of the cosmos
I love the way Smolin explains space-time and reality as though it has a life of it's own. Everything that exists inside space-time goes through a periodic change in events and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Mai 1999 von mjoseph@nsw.bigpond.net.au
A new step for theory and thinking
I like very much this book, that is clearly written. Smolin offers a new step to update the "status" and the horizont of the theory and gives you new points of view for... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. April 1999 von Emilio Taverna
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