The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time

The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
	Cover of the hardcover edition
Authors	Lee Smolin; Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Country	United States
Language	English
Subjects	Physics, cosmology, philosophy of time
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	December 8, 2014
Media type	Print
Pages	566 pp.
ISBN	978-1107074064
Preceded by	Time Reborn (by Smolin) ; The Religion of the Future (by Unger)
Followed by	Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution (by Smolin) ; The Knowledge Economy (by Unger)

The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy is a book about cosmology, philosophy of time, metaphysics and scientific naturalism by the American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin and the Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger. The authors argue that the current crisis in cosmology is a result of physicists making the wrong commitments to universalizing local experiments and to a block universe. They suggest instead that new research projects would be revealed if we took seriously the idea of one, and only one, universe as well as the reality of our experience of time. This new paradigm, they say, would also give rise to the revolutionary notion that the laws of nature might not be immutable. The book was initially published by Cambridge University Press on December 8, 2014.

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