The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin

Book Overview

Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107074061
• ISBN13: 9781107074064
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.1" x 6.3"