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.
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.
發表於2024-12-25
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If there's an ultimate fixed law of physics - of the whole universe, then everything is already determined by the law. If the law is the only and true, then how and where's the evolution - the mistakes and accidental incidents in nature coming from? If th...
評分【讀後總評】: 熟悉相對論的朋友們應該都瞭解,愛因斯坦對宇宙的看法中,有三條核心原則(或者說假設)不容違背,即:1.因果律(因與果在時間上的先後順序在任何地方都不可顛倒);2.確定性(事件都存在著唯一的事實,不因觀察者不同而變化);3.定域性(任何事物不可能同時存...
評分【讀後總評】: 熟悉相對論的朋友們應該都瞭解,愛因斯坦對宇宙的看法中,有三條核心原則(或者說假設)不容違背,即:1.因果律(因與果在時間上的先後順序在任何地方都不可顛倒);2.確定性(事件都存在著唯一的事實,不因觀察者不同而變化);3.定域性(任何事物不可能同時存...
評分If there's an ultimate fixed law of physics - of the whole universe, then everything is already determined by the law. If the law is the only and true, then how and where's the evolution - the mistakes and accidental incidents in nature coming from? If th...
評分半個月來讀瞭兩遍,做瞭十幾大頁筆記,畫瞭一堆邏輯圖,纔好像是讀懂瞭這本《時間重生》。與《時間簡史》不同的是,《時間重生》的研究對象是宇宙規律而不僅僅是宇宙,由於不包含公式且語言優美,實在是比《時間簡史》好看太多且深刻太多。作者從牛頓範式、相對論、量子力學入...
圖書標籤: 物理 LeeSmolin cosmology 哲學 Math 科普 時間 英文原版
期待過高,以為會有新模型提齣,其實也隻是復雜係統放到宇宙尺度而已。但對科學研究方法的質疑值得思考
評分期待過高,以為會有新模型提齣,其實也隻是復雜係統放到宇宙尺度而已。但對科學研究方法的質疑值得思考
評分A valuable radical idea. Wish to see more models.
評分期待過高,以為會有新模型提齣,其實也隻是復雜係統放到宇宙尺度而已。但對科學研究方法的質疑值得思考
評分雖然搞弦論的看不起smolin,不過在當代物理學傢中,他對柏拉圖主義的解讀還算相當深刻的,眼前一亮。
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