The Life of the Cosmos
Lee Smolin
Published in 1997
Prologue
Revolutions 3
Introduction 11
Light and Life 23
The Logic of Atomism 30
3 The Miracle of the Stars 36
The Dream of Unification 47
The Lessons of String Theory 58
An Ecology of Space and Time 73
Detective Work 107
The Ecology of the Galaxy 116
Games and Galaxies 129
The Organization of 139
The Cosmology of an Interesting Universe 161
The Flower and the Dodecahedron 177
Philosophy Religion and Cosmology 192
Beyond the Anthropic Principle 202
Space and Time in the New Cosmology 213
17 The Road from Newton to Einstein 222
The Meaning of Einsteins 233
The Meaning of the Quantum 240
Einsteins Revenge 255
21 A Pluralistic Universe 267
The World as a Network of Relations 276
The Evolution of Time 285
Testing Cosmological 301
Notes and Acknowledgments 324
Selected Bibliography 337
Index 347