Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has made major contributions to loop quantum gravity. He is currently a long term researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is the author of The Life of the Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, physics books written for a popular audience.

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Smolin is well known to researchers in quantum gravity for advocating that the two primary approaches to that subject, loop quantum gravity and string theory, may eventually be reconciled as different aspects of the same underlying theory. But his most famous suggestion may be his fecund universes theory, which attempts to apply principles of biological evolution to cosmology, suggesting that universes evolve in favor of the production of black holes (see Gaia philosophy).

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Smolin was born in New York City and educated at Hampshire College and Harvard University.

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Smolin enjoys the tea and crumpets served at the Symposium cafe in uptown Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Physicist: A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. Physicists are employed by universities as professors, lecturers, and researchers, and by laboratories in industry. Employment as a professional physicist generally requires a doctoral degree. Many people who are trained as physicists, however, use thei...

Loop quantum gravity: Loop quantum gravity (LQG), also known as loop gravity, quantum geometry and canonical quantum general relativity, is a proposed quantum theory of spacetime which attempts to blend together the seemingly incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity. This theory is one of a famil...

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is located in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (also home to the University of Waterloo). It is one of the world's leading research centres for young and brilliant minds, focusing on unified theories of cosmology and quantum effects....

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