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Theoretical Physics Concepts
Customers are highly impressed with the book's coverage of theoretical physics concepts and its proposed theory of cosmological natural selection. The author offers clear explanations of fundamental physics principles and presents new ideas that challenge traditional theories.
Understandability
Customers are highly praising the understandability of The Life of the Cosmos, with many expressing that even non-experts can grasp complex concepts due to Lee Smolin's clear and intuitive writing style. Some readers have also appreciated his unique perspectives on time, causality, determinism, and the anthropic principle. However, a few have noted grammatical issues in the book.
Cosmology Explanation
Customers generally hold positive views towards The Life of the Cosmos's cosmology explanation, with some expressing excitement about its potential to provide a unified understanding of the universe and new insights into the origins of universes through the concept of 'The cosmological natural selection'. However, a few readers acknowledge the book's complexity and suggest it may not be suitable for those without a strong background in physics.
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The book extends this thought to suggest that basic physics concepts on quantum mechanics, relativity theory, string theory and... Read More
This assumes that this evolution of the natural laws has been going on for unimaginable ages and our universe is highly evolved... Read More
There are no eternal laws, only worlds which are the result of random and statistical processes of self-organization.
Published in 1997, smolin doesn't take into account dark energy or the increasing expansion rate of the universe, but otherwise not dated.
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Even if his theory is falsified, this book is a real bargain, because it contains magnificently clear (a real bonus) explanatio... Read More
Into the bargain, it contains a deadly attack on determinism and a very polite but definitive refutation of the anthropic principle.
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No thrill compares with an intellectual thrill, and this book is as good as it gets.
Furthermore, he proposes a theory, which he calls "the cosmological natural selection", that is similar, to a certain extent, t... Read More
Otherwise smolin and all the other physicists that have thrown up objections to his theories would have dealt with these problems
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- This product had a total of 118 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 27 2024.
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He did not return to this proposal in his later books so i dont know if he still advocates it
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You actually have to pay attention and even reread sections at times
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But the overall concepts and theories are thought provoking and interesting
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Smolin has succesfully visualy maybe not scientificially unified darwins theory of evolotion with einsteins theory of relativity
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One of smolins most interesting conjectures in this book is that the big bang of our universe is just the rebound from the collapse of a black hole within some larger universe and that within all black holes in our universe the rebounds from the collapse of those black holes are themselves big bangs forming new universes in their own right
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That in itself isnt such an original idea
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Smolins innovation is to imagine that as the black hole collapses towards the singularity when the size of the collapsing matter reaches planck dimensions ten to the minus thirtythird centimeters currently unknown quantum effects take over and the singularity never actually gets a chance to form
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Instead all the matter rebounds in a big bang forming another universe as explained above but with this little wrinkle the basic constants of nature the masses of the elementary particles and the strengths of the basic forces change ever so slightly
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