Life of the Cosmos

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ISBN: 9780195126648

ISBN-10: 0195126645

ISBN-13: 9780195126648

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Authors: Lee Smolin

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Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through black holes, each of which may result in a new big bang and a new universe. Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of physics, favoring those universes which best reproduce. The result would be a cosmology according to which life is a natural consequence of the fundamental principles on which the universe has been built, and a science that would give us a picture of the universe in…

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List price: $26.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/4/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has made important contributions to quantum gravity. He was educated at Hampshire College and Harvard University. He is a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His earlier books explore philosophical issues raised by contemporary physics and cosmology: Life of the Cosmos, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, The Trouble with Physics, and Time Reborn.



Prologue/Revolutions


Introduction



the Crisis in Fundamental Physics



Light and Life



the Logic of Atomism



the Miracle of the Stars



the Dream of Unification



the Lessons of String Theory



an Ecology of Space and Time



Are the Laws of Physics Universal?



Did the Universe Evolve?



Detective Work



the Ecology of the Galaxy



Games and Galaxies



Th E Organization of the Cosmos



What is Life?



the Cosmology of an Interesting Universe



the Flower and the Dodecahedron



Philosophy, Religion, and Cosmology



Beyond the Anthropic Principle



Einstein's Legacy



Space and Time in the New Cosmology



the Road from Newton to Einstein



the Meaning of Einstein's Theory of Relativity



the Meaning of the Quantum



Einstein's Revenge



Cosmology and the Quantum



a Pluralistic Universe



the World as a Network of Relations



the Evolution of Time


Epilogue/ Evolutions


Appendix: Testing Cosmological Natural Selection


Notes and Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography


Glossary of Scientific and Philosophical Terms


Index