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The Life of the Cosmos

The Life of the Cosmos

by Lee Smolin (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Apr 1998
ISBN 10: 075380123X
ISBN 13: 9780753801239
Book Overview: * Though fundamentally rooted in science, its life-centred view of the universe will appeal widely. * '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.

Author Bio
Lee Smolin is Professor of Physics at the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University. He is a leading contributor to the search of a unification of quantum theory, cosmology and relativity.