Lee Smolin
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Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto.
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One of the evident facts about the world is the stability of empty space-time.
arXiv:1406.2611v1 based partly on results derived with Artem Starodubtsev
We show that some known classical results have particularly simple derivations within the Ashtekar formalism. These include Witten's positive energy theorem...
arXiv:1406.2611v1 based partly on results derived with Artem Starodubtsev
The positive energy theorem was for half a century or more an open challenge to relativists.
arXiv:1406.2611v1 based partly on results derived with Artem Starodubtsev
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Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Smolin's 2006 book The Trouble with Physics criticized string theory's viability. He has made contributions to quantum gravity theory, in particular the approach known as loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, can be reconciled as different aspects of the same underlying theory. He also advocates an alternative view on space and time that he calls temporal naturalism. His research interests also include cosmology, elementary particle theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and theoretical biology.
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