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Physics World

As real as it gets

Philip Ball

Published Apr 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

Theoretical physicist and author Lee Smolin has a reputation for ideas that come find stimulating and provocative, while others would happily call them crazy. That's how it should be. Quantum physics can look crazy, and it needs bold and even outrageous ideas, such as the one that Smolin presents in his latest book Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: the Search for What Lies Beyong the Quantum .

DOI
10.1088/2058-7058/32/4/32

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Theoretical physicist and author Lee Smolin has a reputation for ideas that come find stimulating and provocative, while others would happily call them crazy. That's how it should be. Quantum physics can look crazy, and it needs bold and even outrageous ideas, such as the one that Smolin presents in his latest book Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: the Search for What Lies Beyong the Quantum .
The intensive path of development of science has led not only to the compilation of a large amount of poorly systematized knowledge about nature but also to the fact that under this "cultural layer" many magnificent ideas of the luminaries of the last century were found. This primarily concerns quantum theory, which has departed from the principles of quantization of Planck–Einstein and degenerated into a formal science, which not only does not need to be understood but also is forbidden to be understood. However, starting from the Planck–Einstein spatial resonances called quanta, we get a transparent physical picture and can correct a number of theories. The foundation of this book was laid by the popular science article "Uncombed Physics and the Particle of God" (https://rusnor.org/pubs/articles/8058.htm). This is what the Higgs boson was pompously called when Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize. This work was continued by the author in subsequent books in which the author deliberately (for self-control) tried to include only the material that had passed the examination in scientific journals. This book includes both the author's early scientific works, which identified problems in elementary basic models, and the author's latest, which gave ways to solve fundamental problems.