![]() In other words, neither “God did it” nor “the uncausally connected multiverse did it” are scientific answers. He wants these questions answered without resort to God works in mysterious ways or It was just the dumb luck of our uncausally connected and infinite multiverse dicing out one of the logically possible scenarios of physical laws and atoms. He wants to move beyond the three “great theories of 20th century physics” (relativity, quantum theory, and the Standard Model) to a new physical theory–one capable of answering two questions: Why do the physical laws that we have exist and why at the Big Bang did very particular initial conditions exist? (103 121-122). Without God’s whimsy or dumb luck. Smolin’s ambitious central concern is to find a way to reach a full scientific explanation of the cosmos. ![]() Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin’s new book, Time Reborn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), is mind-blowing–I assume it will still be talked about fifty years from now–and I’ll do my best in this post, having read the book through with great pleasure twice in the past week, to briefly summarize some of his concerns and point out places where the book seems sympatico with Buddhism.
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