Can the future be predicted? In his new book Time Reborn, physicist Lee Smolin sets out to show that the world is an unpredictable place, and that common-sense, Newtonian habits of thought prove seriously mistaken when applied to the great unbounded problems of our age, from economics to climate change.
Time Reborn: From the Crisis of Physics to the Future of the Universe
Lee Smolin
Allen Lane, HB £20 / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, HB $28
In the first part of our interview, Lee Smolin explains why Newtonian physics cannot be applied to the world as a whole, and why the work of Newton’s great rival, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, may hold the key to a new model of the universe.
In part two, Smolin explores the human implications of a world where time is real and true novelty in nature is possible.
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