Time Reborn

"If you are looking for a bracing alternative vision of physics built from the ground up, Smolin's Time Reborn will take you to the mountaintop." — NPR

What is time?

It’s the sort of question we rarely ask because it seems so obvious. And yet, to a physicist, time is simply a human construct and an illusion. If you could somehow get outside the universe and observe it from there, you would see that every moment has always existed and always will. Lee Smolin disagrees, and in Time Reborn he lays out the case why.

Developments in physics and cosmology point toward the reality of time and the openness of the future. Smolin’s groundbreaking theory postulates that physical laws can evolve over time and the future is not yet determined. Newton’s fundamental laws may not remain so fundamental. Time Reborn serves as a popular primer and investigation of time, both what it is and how the true nature of it impacts our world.

"He challenges not only Einstein’s relativity, but also the very notion of natural laws as immutable truths." — Economist

“One of the essential books of the twenty-first century . . . Smolin provides a much-needed dose of clarity about time, with implications that go far beyond physics to economics, politics, and personal philosophy.” — Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget

• The Life of the Cosmos
• Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
• Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
• The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
• The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy
• The Order of Time
• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
• Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe
• Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
• The Order of Time