false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172473670m/179756.jpg 179756 3 Lee Smolin is not afraid to think big--really, really big. His theory of cosmic evolution by the natural selection of black-hole universes makes what we can experience into an infinitesimal, yet crucial, part of an ever-larger whole. Smolin says, "the new view of the universe is light, in all its senses, because what Darwin has given us, and what we may aspire to generalize to the cosmos as a whole, is a way of thinking about the world which is scientific and mechanistic, but in which the occurrence of novelty--indeed, the perpetual birth of novelty--can be understood." Other scientists are, to say the least, divided on whether Smolin has much chance of being right, but they agree with Paul Davies that he is "a deep and original thinker." 173673 1997 The Life of the Cosmos total:37|5:14|4:16|3:4|2:3|1:0| 37 152 92 8 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 25 23:08:20 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 25 22:20:46 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 03 14:23:56 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 14:35:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jun 11 05:06:13 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 05:07:05 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 06:10:25 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 06:16:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu May 17 10:59:39 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 11:01:21 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 14:41:10 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 14:41:50 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Fri Sep 14 17:01:39 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 17:06:20 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sat Dec 22 16:15:34 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 16:15:34 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 18:44:44 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 18:44:44 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 17:15:35 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 17:15:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 17 19:48:53 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 19:48:56 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 09:55:51 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 09:55:51 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 30 16:04:12 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:04:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 15:28:17 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 15:28:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 19 13:08:08 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:08:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:28:59 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 00:28:59 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 05:47:52 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 05:47:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:21:45 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 00:21:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 15:15:43 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 15:15:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:52:52 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 00:52:52 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=179756