Lee Smolin (/ˈsmoʊlɪn/; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an...
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Leonard Susskind (redirect from Smolin-Susskind debate)
website. The Smolin–Susskind debate refers to the series of intense postings in 2004 between Lee Smolin and Susskind, concerning Smolin's argument that...
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Smolin, American law professor Ivan Smolin (fl. 1920), commander of the Soviet 21st Rifle Division John A. Smolin (b. 1967), American physicist Lee Smolin...
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selection, also called the fecund universes, is a hypothesis proposed by Lee Smolin intended as a scientific alternative to the anthropic principle. It addresses...
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The Life of the Cosmos (category Books by Lee Smolin)
theoretical physicist Lee Smolin. The book was initially published on January 1, 1997 by Oxford University Press. In the book, Smolin details his fecund...
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The Trouble with Physics (category Books by Lee Smolin)
Science, and What Comes Next is a 2006 book by the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin about the problems with string theory. The book strongly criticizes string...
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awarding the tenured professorships. For example, according to physicist Lee Smolin, "...it is practically career suicide for a young theoretical physicist...
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and quantum mechanics. One solution to the problem of time proposed by Lee Smolin is that there exists a "thick present" of events, in which two events...
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physics, specifically Yang–Mills theory. Shortly after, Ted Jacobson and Lee Smolin realized that the formal equation of quantum gravity, called the Wheeler–DeWitt...
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perturbations of this fixed one. In his book The Trouble With Physics, physicist Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics claims that this is...
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anthropic controversy as a segue to Lee Smolin's theory of cosmological natural selection. Leonard Susskind and Lee Smolin debate the anthropic principle....
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newcomers.[citation needed] In May 2006, Markopoulou published a paper with Lee Smolin that further popularized this Causal dynamical triangulation (CDT) theory...
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In Time Reborn, Lee Smolin argues that time is physically fundamental, in contrast to Einstein's view that time is an illusion. Smolin hypothesizes that...
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Time Reborn (category Books by Lee Smolin)
the Universe is a 2013 book by the American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin. Smolin argues for what he calls a revolutionary view that time is real, in...
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (category Books by Lee Smolin)
theoretical physicist Lee Smolin. The book was initially published on May 30, 2001 by Basic Books as a part of the Science Masters series. Smolin discusses three...
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journalist George Johnson regarding the controversy caused by the books of Lee Smolin (The Trouble with Physics) and Woit (Not Even Wrong). The meeting was...
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landscape in evolutionary biology. It was first applied to cosmology by Lee Smolin in his book The Life of the Cosmos (1997), and was first used in the context...
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since been applied to the theory of quantum gravity by Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin, Jorge Pullin, Rodolfo Gambini and others. Spin networks can also be used...
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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time (category Books by Lee Smolin)
metaphysics and scientific naturalism by the American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin and the Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger. The authors argue...
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position of this book on the bestseller lists makes sense. According to Lee Smolin: Penrose is uniquely honest in mentioning the weak points and gaps in...
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concludes that supermassive black holes are the largest contributor. Lee Smolin goes further: "It has long been known that gravity is important for keeping...
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interpretation of this state remains obscure. In 1988–90, Carlo Rovelli and Lee Smolin obtained an explicit basis of states of quantum geometry, which turned...
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York Times reported that the physicists David Gross, Carlo Rovelli, and Lee Smolin considered the Bogdanoff papers nonsensical. Nobel laureate Georges Charpak...
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Modern proponents of one or more of the multiverse hypotheses include Lee Smolin, Don Page, Brian Greene, Max Tegmark, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Michio...
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (category Books by Lee Smolin)
theoretical physicist Lee Smolin. The book was initially published by Penguin Press on April 9, 2019. In this book, his sixth, Smolin tries to provide criticism...
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Lawrence Lessig Robert Nozick Steven Pinker Samantha Power Eugene Rogan Lee Smolin Jacob Soll Jason Sokol Timothy Snyder Tamler Sommers Thomas Sowell Ian...
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apart from the properties just mentioned, we know absolutely nothing. — Lee Smolin (2007), The Trouble with Physics, p. 16 Exotic matter is a concept of...
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Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2010-05-23. Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, 2002), pp...
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Rovelli: one of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity. Lee Smolin: one of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity. Rafael...
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Generation of Fluctuations from Thermodynamics". arXiv:1001.4786 [hep-th]. Lee Smolin (2010). "Newtonian gravity in loop quantum gravity". arXiv:1001.3668 [gr-qc]...
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