Ranked #57 in Cosmology
One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos.
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 see things differently, from Newton to Einstein to today’s quantum theorists. For them, time isn’t real. You may think you experience time passing, but they say it’s just an illusion.
Lee Smolin, author of the controversial bestseller The Trouble with Physics, argues this limited notion of... more
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 see things differently, from Newton to Einstein to today’s quantum theorists. For them, time isn’t real. You may think you experience time passing, but they say it’s just an illusion.
Lee Smolin, author of the controversial bestseller The Trouble with Physics, argues this limited notion of... more