Tag Archives: Lee Smolin

Smolin on characterising science

At the end of The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin discusses the character of science. What fascinated me is that he picked out (at least in name) two aspects that I’ve proposed here: namely science as an monastic/ethical and imaginative community. Let’s drop in a couple of quotes here and, hopefully, come back and discuss …

March 29, 2009 – 7:53 pm | By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Smolin on unification

[I apologise in advance, this may be one of the posts that I am unique in finding of value!] OK, lets ponder around an interesting quote from Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics. …there are different ways that physics can be unified, and we should be careful to distinguish them. So far we have been discussing …

March 27, 2009 – 11:00 pm | By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Trouble with Physics

I’ve just finished reading The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin. If you are in anyway interested in modern physics then I recommend it. It’s great fun and very thought provoking. To describe the content, I guess Smolin has three or four things going on simultaneously. The motivating theme is his worry over the extreme …

March 25, 2009 – 10:31 pm | By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)