Time Reborn

LEE SMOLIN has made influential contributions to the search for a unification of physics. He is a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His previous books include The Trouble with Physics, The Life of the Cosmos, and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity.

出版者:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

作者:Lee Smolin

页数:352

出版时间:2013-4-23

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780547511726

图书标签:物理LeeSmolincosmology哲学Math科普时间英文原版

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From one of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals, a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos

What is time?

This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles—come down to the nature of time.

The fact that time is real may seem obvious. You experience it passing every day when you watch clocks tick, bread toast, and children grow. But most physicists, from Newton to Einstein to today’s quantum theorists, have seen things differently. The scientific case for time being an illusion is formidable. That is why the consequences of adopting the view that time is real are revolutionary.

Lee Smolin, author of the controversial bestseller The Trouble with Physics, argues that a limited notion of time is holding physics back. It’s time for a major revolution in scientific thought. The reality of time could be the key to the next big breakthrough in theoretical physics.

What if the laws of physics themselves were not timeless? What if they could evolve? Time Reborn offers a radical new approach to cosmology that embraces the reality of time and opens up a whole new universe of possibilities. There are few ideas that, like our notion of time, shape our thinking about literally everything, with huge implications for physics and beyond—from climate change to the economic crisis. Smolin explains in lively and lucid prose how the true nature of time impacts our world.

读后感

“The only field which has not admitted any evolutionary question is physics. Here are the laws, we say, ... but how did they get that way, in time? ... So, it might turn out that they are not the same [laws] all the time and that there is a historical, evo...  

“The only field which has not admitted any evolutionary question is physics. Here are the laws, we say, ... but how did they get that way, in time? ... So, it might turn out that they are not the same [laws] all the time and that there is a historical, evo...  

用户评价

A valuable radical idea. Wish to see more models.

A valuable radical idea. Wish to see more models.

期待过高，以为会有新模型提出，其实也只是复杂系统放到宇宙尺度而已。但对科学研究方法的质疑值得思考

Lee对科学的方法论提出了新的意见，认为过去的科学是建立在研究宇宙的局部被称为Newtonian paradiam的范式，而如果是研究整个宇宙，这个范式会失效，需要新的范式，把整个宇宙看做整体，同时时间不再只是不变的规律的逻辑结果，时间本身是宇宙的重要变量。

Lee对科学的方法论提出了新的意见，认为过去的科学是建立在研究宇宙的局部被称为Newtonian paradiam的范式，而如果是研究整个宇宙，这个范式会失效，需要新的范式，把整个宇宙看做整体，同时时间不再只是不变的规律的逻辑结果，时间本身是宇宙的重要变量。