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| "Smolin?
Oh, is he that young guy with those crazy ideas? He may not be wrong!" - Murray Gell-Mann
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Lee Smolin
"What is space and what is time? This is what the problem of quantum gravity is about. In general relativity, Einstein gave us not only a theory of gravity but a theory of what space and time are--a theory that overthrew the previous Newtonian conception of space and time. The problem of quantum gravity is how to combine the understanding of space and time we have from relativity theory with the quantum theory, which also tells us something essential and deep about nature." LEE SMOLIN, a theoretical physicist, is a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo Canada. He is the author of The Life of The Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity.
Further
reading on Edge: Smolin vs. Susskind: The Antropic Principle [8.18.04] Beyong Edge:
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