Lee Smolin Quotes

Lee Smolin — American Physicist

Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto... (wikipedia)

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

Lee Smolin Quotes

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