The life of the cosmos:
Cosmologist Lee Smolin offers a startling new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. In The Life of the Cosmos, Smolin cuts the Gordian knot of cosmology with a simple, powerful idea: "The underlying structure of our...
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Zusammenfassung: | Cosmologist Lee Smolin offers a startling new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. In The Life of the Cosmos, Smolin cuts the Gordian knot of cosmology with a simple, powerful idea: "The underlying structure of our world," he writes, "is to be found in the logic of evolution." Today's physicists have overturned Newton's view of the universe, yet they continue to cling to an understanding of reality not unlike Newton's own - as a clock, an intricate mechanism, governed by laws which are mathematical and eternally true. Smolin argues that the laws of nature we observe may be in part the result of a process of natural selection which took place before the big bang. Smolin's ideas are based on recent developments in cosmology, quantum theory, relativity and string theory, yet they offer, at the same time, an unprecedented view of how these developments may fit together to form a new theory of cosmology. From this perspective, the lines between the simple and the complex, the fundamental and the emergent, and even between the biological and the physical are redrawn. The result is a framework that illuminates many intractable problems, from the paradoxes of quantum theory and the nature of space and time to the problem of constructing a final theory of physics. As he argues for this new view, Smolin introduces the reader to recent developments in a wide range of fields, from string theory and quantum gravity to evolutionary theory the structure of galaxies. He examines the philosophical roots of controversies in the foundations of physics, and shows how they may be transformed as science moves toward understanding the universe as an interrelated, self-constructed entity, within which life and complexity have a natural place, and in which "the occurrence of novelty, indeed the perpetual birth of novelty, can be understood." |
Beschreibung: | VIII, 358 S. |
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adam_text | Q U THE L I F E OF THE COSMOS WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON LONDON CONTENTS
PROLOGUE/REVOLUTIONS, 1 INTRODUCTION, 11 PART 1 THE CRISIS IN
FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS 1. LIGHT AND LIFE, 23 2. THE LOGIC OF ATOMISM, 30 3.
THE MIRACLE OF THE STARS, 36 4. THE DREAM OF UNIFICATION, 47 5. THE
LESSONS OF STRING THEORY, 58 PART 2 AN ECOLOGY OF SPACE AND TIME 6. ARE
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS UNIVERSAL?, 75 7. DID THE UNIVERSE EVOLVE?, 90 8.
DETECTIVE WORK, 107 9. THE ECOLOGY OF THE GALAXY, 116 10. GAMES AND
GALAXIES, 129 PART 3 THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COSMOS 11. WHAT IS LIFE?,
141 12. THE COSMOLOGY OF AN INTERESTING UNIVERSE, 161 VIII CONTENTS 13.
THE FLOWER AND THE DODECAHEDRON, 177 14. PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND
COSMOLOGY, 192 15. BEYOND THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE, 202 PART 4 EINSTEIN S
LEGACY 16. SPACE AND TIME IN THE NEW COSMOLOGY, 213 17. THE ROAD FROM
NEWTON TO EINSTEIN, 222 18. THE MEANING OF EINSTEIN S THEORY OF
RELATIVITY, 233 19. THE MEANING OF THE QUANTUM, 240 PART 5 EINSTEIN S
REVENGE 20. COSMOLOGY AND THE QUANTUM, 257 21. A PLURALISTIC UNIVERSE,
267 22. THE WORLD AS A NETWORK OF RELATIONS, 276 23. THE EVOLUTION OF
TIME, 285 EPILOGUE/EVOLUTIONS, 294 APPENDIX: TESTING COSMOLOGICAL
NATURAL SELECTION, 301 NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 324 SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 337 GLOSSARY, 342 INDEX, 347
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