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Lee Smolin


Biography

Lee Smolin is an American physics theorist, writer and professor. He is one of the main inventors of loop quantum gravitation, one of the main approaches to unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics. He is currently a researcher at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), an institute devoted to theoretical physics. He is the author of several scientific books, including The Life of The Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, which presents the three main approaches to quantum gravitation, including loop quantum gravitation and string theory, as well as The trouble with Physics – The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What comes next. The failure of string theory.

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