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“... pillars of 20th-century physics: quantum theory and Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Lee Smolin, a major contributor to the subject, brings us right up to date with it in this book. It’s written for general readers, but is more than just another work of popular science: it is a serious attempt at clarifying the author’s own thoughts ...”

“... universes, so we wouldn’t be around to observe universes with very different characteristics. Lee Smolin has picked up Mach’s mantle and begun to criticise the metaphysical obscurities he detects in the latest multiverse theories. Too much of today’s physics and cosmology, he argues, remains yoked to a Newtonian framework: Newton’s notions of ...”

“... never have occurred naturally.’ This may be the most important point in Rees’s important book. Lee Smolin’s The Life of the Cosmos insists that our cosmos is unified in a way once thought unique to living beings. Einstein’s general relativity is Machian, which means (to use a traditional way of making the point) that it attributes a car’s ...”