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Quotes from Three Roads to Quantum Gravity — Lee Smolin

born 1955 United States

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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

There is nothing beyond the world except what we see, no background to it except its particular history.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

I believe that the main lesson of relativity and quantum theory is that the world is nothing but an evolving network of relationships.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

Time is described only in terms of change in the network of relationships that describes space.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

It is absurd in general relativity to speak of a universe in which nothing happens.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

The geometry of space changes when things in the universe change their relationships to one another.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

There is no fixed, eternal frame to the universe to define what may or may not exist.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence.

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lee Smolin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.