The Life of the Cosmos

by Lee Smolin (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $5.51

  In this text, the author presents his new theory that inside every black hole is a universe, probably very similar to our own, but where the laws of physics are slightly different. Our universe, therefore, has to be seen as just one part of a vast array of universes in a self-reproducing system.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.44

  This radical, exciting book draws as much on Darwinian ideas as on Einstein's to propose a way forward beyond theories that can only explain aspects of our universe, towards one that can explain it as a whole. Smolin suggests that the laws of nature are not fixed, but that they evolve in the same way that living things themselves evolve. Effectively, Smolin puts forward the possible unifica-tion of biology and physics, a view of the cosmos which moves beyond both the notion of God and the pessimism of Nietzsche and the existentialists.

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $23.82

  In The Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin offers a theory of the universe that is radically different from anything proposed before. He argues that 'The underlying structure of our world is to be found in the logic of evolution'. He departs from contemporary physicists to explore the idea that the laws of nature we observe may be the partial result a process of natural selection that occurred before the Big Bang.