LEE SMOLIN (b. 1955) is a theoretical physicist who has been since 2001 a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has made contributions to quantum gravity theory, elementary particle theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and theoretical biology. He has also contributed to cosmology, through his proposal of cosmological natural selection: a falsifiable mechanism to explain the choice of the laws of physics.
His books explore philosophical issues raised by contemporary physics and cosmology. In THREE ROADS TO QUANTUM GRAVITY (2002), Smolin argued that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity — loop quantum gravity and string theory — can be reconciled as different aspects of the same underlying concept. THE TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS (2006), on the other hand, was strongly critical of string theory and its prominence in contemporary theoretical physics, on the grounds that it has suppressed research in other promising approaches and has yet to come up with a single prediction that can be verified using any technology that is likely to be feasible within our lifetimes.
His most recent work, EINSTEIN'S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION (2019), guides readers through the basics of quantum physics, introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have transformed our understanding of the universe, before wrestling with the puzzles and conundrums that the quantum world presents. Along the way, he illuminates the existing theories that might solve these problems, guiding us toward a vision of the quantum that embraces common-sense realism.
This collection also includes more than 160 academic papers (all PDF).
The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as indicated:
* Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (Penguin, 2019) — ePUB
* Life of the Cosmos (Oxford, 1997) — PDF
* Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, The (Cambridge, 2014) — PDF
* Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (Basic Books, 2001) — PDF
* Three Roads to Quantum Gravity [updated] (Basic Books, 2017) — ePUB
* Time Reborn (HMH, 2013) — ePUB + PDF
* Trouble with Physics, The (HMH, 2007) — ePUB
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Curriculum Vita and Bibliography (2017)
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Smolin, Lee - CV and Bibliography (2017).pdf (428.6 KB)
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
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Smolin, Lee - Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (Penguin, 2019).epub (7.1 MB)
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Smolin, Lee - Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (Penguin, 2019).jpg (241.5 KB)
Life of the Cosmos
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Smolin, Lee - Life of the Cosmos (Oxford, 1997).jpg (607.9 KB)
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Smolin, Lee - Life of the Cosmos (Oxford, 1997).pdf (8.4 MB)
Miscellaneous Papers
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2+1 gravity and Doubly Special Relativity (2004).pdf (71.2 KB)
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A fixed point for quantum gravity (1982).pdf (1.2 MB)
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A naturalist account of the limited effectiveness of mathematics... (2015).pdf (94.9 KB)
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A Perspective on the Landscape Problem (2012).pdf (690.8 KB)
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A Shape Dynamical Approach to Holographic Renormalization (2015).pdf (333.5 KB)
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A Universe that Does Not Know the Time (2019).pdf (259.0 KB)
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An Action for higher spin gauge theory in four dimensions (2011).pdf (213.3 KB)
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An invitation to loop quantum gravity (2004).pdf (1.5 MB)
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Anomalous Cosmic-Microwave-Background Polarization... (2008).pdf (138.5 KB)
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Atoms of Space and Time (2004).pdf (729.0 KB)
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Autodidactic Universe (2021).pdf (4.8 MB)
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Beyond Weird (2019).pdf (917.3 KB)
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Biocosmology I (2022).pdf (260.9 KB)
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Biocosmology II (2022).pdf (914.6 KB)
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Black hole information paradox and relative locality (2014).pdf (141.5 KB)
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Candidate for a background independent formulation of M theory (2000).pdf (692.1 KB)
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Causal evolution of spin networks (1997).pdf (1.5 MB)
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Chern-Simons Invariant as the Natural Time Variable (1995).pdf (1.4 MB)
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Classical paradoxes of locality and possible quantum resolutions (2011).pdf (253.7 KB)
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Coevolution of membranes and channels (1997).pdf (92.0 KB)
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Combinatorial Dynamics and Time in Quantum Gravity (2000).pdf (235.3 KB)
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Conservative solutions to the black hole information problem (2010).pdf (330.4 KB)
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Cosmological Histories for the New Variables (1995).pdf (259.4 KB)
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Cosmological natural selection... (2004).pdf (201.8 KB)
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Cosmological signatures of time-asymmetric gravity (2016).pdf (116.3 KB)
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Cosmology as a Problem in Critical Phenomena (1995).pdf (2.6 MB)
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Cosmology of minimal varying Lambda theories (2019).pdf (198.0 KB)
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Could deformed special relativity naturally arise... (2008).pdf (132.5 KB)
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Covariant quantization of membrane dynamics (1998).pdf (145.4 KB)
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Cubic Matrix Action for the Standard Model and Beyond (2022).pdf (490.4 KB)
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Culture of Science Divided Against Itself (2013).pdf (162.6 KB)
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Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity (1995).pdf (1.4 MB)
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Disordered locality as an explanation for the dark energy (2009).pdf (85.8 KB)
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Disordered locality in loop quantum gravity states (2007).pdf (288.8 KB)
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Dynamics of Difference (2018).pdf (423.9 KB)
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Dynamics of the cosmological and Newton’s constant (2015).pdf (258.7 KB)
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Eleven-dimensional supergravity... (2001).pdf (141.7 KB)
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Enhanced color gauge invariance... (2022).pdf (293.3 KB)
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Equivalence Principle and the Emergence of Flat Rotation Curves (2018).pdf (209.6 KB)
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Exactly solvable quantum cosmologies (1989).pdf (1.6 MB)
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Extending Dualities to Trialities... (2016).pdf (195.3 KB)
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Falsifiable predictions from semiclassical quantum gravity (2006).pdf (173.2 KB)
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Fermion Doubling in Loop Quantum Gravity (2015).pdf (203.1 KB)
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Finite diffeomorphism-invariant observables... (1994).pdf (418.8 KB)
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Four principles for quantum gravity (2016).pdf (466.5 KB)
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Fundamental quantum optics experiments... (2012).pdf (1.1 MB)
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Future of spin networks (1997).pdf (291.6 KB)
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Galactic disks as reaction-diffusion systems (1996).pdf (160.9 KB)
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Gamma ray burst delay times probe geometry of momentum space (2011).pdf (730.2 KB)
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Gauge fixing in causal dynamical triangulations (2006).pdf (107.0 KB)
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General relativity as the equation of state of spin foam (2014).pdf (274.8 KB)
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General relativity with a topological phase (2003).pdf (82.8 KB)
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Generalized Lorentz invariance with an invariant energy scale (2003).pdf (108.0 KB)
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Generic predictions of quantum theories of gravity (n.d.).pdf (477.4 KB)
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Geometry for non-abelian tensor gauge fields (1984).pdf (197.2 KB)
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Geometry of quantum spin networks (1996).pdf (176.4 KB)
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Graded Manifold Theory as the Geometry of Supersymmetry (1979).pdf (1.7 MB)
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Gravitational origin of the weak interaction’s chirality (2014).pdf (214.7 KB)
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Gravitational radiative corrections as the origin... (1980).pdf (427.7 KB)
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Gravitons and Loops (1991).pdf (432.9 KB)
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Gravity's Rainbow (2004).pdf (135.9 KB)
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Ground state of quantum gravity... (2002).pdf (1.3 MB)
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High-energy behavior and second class constraints (1984).pdf (1.1 MB)
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Holographic formulation of quantum general relativity (2000).pdf (129.9 KB)
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Holographic Formulation of Quantum Supergravity (2001).pdf (153.3 KB)
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Holographic relations in loop quantum gravity (2016).pdf (949.5 KB)
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Holography and the scale-invariance of density fluctuations (2007).pdf (194.9 KB)
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Holography in a quantum spacetime (1999).pdf (178.9 KB)
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How far are we from the quantum theory of gravity (2003).pdf (652.9 KB)
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Interaction-Free Effects Between Distant Atoms (2017).pdf (509.1 KB)
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Interview (2011).pdf (201.9 KB)
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It's Time to Rewrite Time (2013).pdf (1.1 MB)
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Knot Theory and Quantum Gravity (1988).pdf (153.4 KB)
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Left-handed spin connection as a variable for canonical gravity (1987).pdf (313.3 KB)
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Lessons from Einstein’s 1915 discovery of general relativity (2015).pdf (127.7 KB)
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Linearization of the Kodama state (2004).pdf (150.3 KB)
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Linking shape dynamics and loop quantum gravity (2014).pdf (113.3 KB)
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Linking topological quantum field theory... (1995).pdf (3.7 MB)
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Loop space representation of quantum general relativity (1990).pdf (3.7 MB)
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Lorentz Invariance with an Invariant Energy Scale (2002).pdf (78.3 KB)
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M theory as a matrix extension of Chern–Simons theory (2000).pdf (134.1 KB)
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Matrix models as non-local hidden variables theories (n.d.).pdf (336.7 KB)
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MOND as a regime of quantum gravity (2017).pdf (243.3 KB)
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Natural and bionic neuronal membranes (2020).pdf (311.8 KB)
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Never say always (2006).pd
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