{"id":2454,"date":"2007-06-09T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonings.com\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:23:24","slug":"an-interview-with-lee-smolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Lee Smolin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can the future be predicted? In his book Time Reborn (2013), physicist Lee Smolin set out to show that the world is an unpredictable place, and that common-sense, Newtonian habits of thought prove seriously mistaken when applied to the great unbounded problems of our age, from economics to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>In the first part of this interview, conducted for Arc magazine, Lee Smolin explains why Newtonian physics cannot be applied to the world as a whole, and why the work of Newton&#8217;s great rival, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, may hold the key to a new model of the universe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Lee Smolin at arcfinity.org (1)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkRgQtUTXOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and in the second part Smolin explores the human implications of a world where time is real and true novelty in nature is possible.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Lee Smolin at arcfinity.org (2)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KH4Y40SLFZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the future be predicted? In his book Time Reborn (2013), physicist Lee Smolin set out to show that the world is an unpredictable place, and that common-sense, Newtonian habits of thought prove seriously mistaken when applied to the great &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=2454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,617],"tags":[370,388,73],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-books-reviews-and-opinion","tag-arc","tag-cosmology","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}