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Biocosmology: Biology from a cosmological perspective
Marina Cortês, Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrew R. Liddle +1
The Universe contains everything that exists, including life. And all that exists, including life, obeys universal physical laws. Do those laws then give adequate foundations for a…
Temporal relationalism
Lee Smolin
Because of the non-locality of quantum entanglement, realist approaches to completing quantum mechanics have implications for our conception of space. Quantum gravity also is expec…
Lessons from Einstein's 1915 discovery of general relativity
Lee Smolin
There is a myth that Einstein's discovery of general relativity was due to his following beautiful mathematics to discover new insights about nature. I argue that this is an incorr…
A naturalist account of the limited, and hence reasonable, effectiveness of mathematics in physics
Lee Smolin
The aim of this essay is to propose a conception of mathematics that is fully consonant with naturalism. By that I mean the hypothesis that everything that exists is part of the na…
Temporal naturalism
Lee Smolin
Two people may claim both to be naturalists, but have divergent conceptions of basic elements of the natural world which lead them to mean different things when they talk about law…
A perspective on the landscape problem
Lee Smolin
I discuss the historical roots of the landscape problem and propose criteria for its successful resolution. This provides a perspective to evaluate the possibility to solve it in s…