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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."
The New York Times Book Review, George Johnson
It's great fun to see the implications of this fantastic idea laid out by so original a thinker. But in the end I wasn't convinced that his is a verifiable scientific theory ... I was far more impressed with the insightful account Smolin gives of the ambitious effort of physicists to come up with a theory of what they call quantum cosmology...
The Life of the Cosmos
The Life of the Cosmos,Lee Smolin,Oxford University Press, USA,019510837X,Astronomy - Universe,Astrophysics & Space Science,Cosmology,Cosmology (Astronomy),Science,Science/Mathematics,Universe,Astronomy | Cosmology,Cosmology & the universe,PHYSICS,Science / Cosmology
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