Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin explained the incomplete nature of quantum theory before a packed lecture hall in the Science Center on Wednesday evening, discussing his newest book, “Einstein’s ...

There was an air of melancholy about the theoretical physicist David Bohm when he came to speak at the University of Toronto in the mid-1980s – or so it seemed to me at the time, a student with only a ...

Popularisers of modern physics face a problem that is possibly insuperable. The mathematics that lies at the heart of the subject is too hard for a non-specialist to grasp, and yet, without the maths, ...

Lee Smolin is author of Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) and founding and senior faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for ...

We physicists are all romantics. Don't laugh; it's true. In our youth we all fall deeply in love. We fall in love with a beautiful idea: beyond this world of constant change lies another world that is ...

At an interdisciplinary gathering of academics discussing the concept of time, I once heard a scientist tell the assembled humanities scholars that physics can now replace all their woolly notions of ...

My copy of The New York Review of Books just arrived, and I spent an entertaining twenty minutes reading Lee Smolin's lengthy review of two new Einstein books (subscription required unfortunately).

Time waits for no man: A small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula, taken by Hubble telescope, 2010 Credit: Photo: NASA/Rex Once upon a time, ...