Lee Smolin is an astronomer and theoretical physicist who has contributed much to the research on unifying General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics. You can read a very comprehensive report about this research on his latest book "Three Roads To Quantum Gravity". It's my belief, however, that "The Life Of The Cosmos" will prove to be a much more important book. Despite it being quite speculative and sometimes beyond the realm of science, the theory of cosmological evolution it presents makes a lot of sense and provides an explanation for many fundamental questions like what is life, what is the universe and what is the role of a human being in it. Applying the rules of biological evolution in cosmology is a brilliant insight that, if proven true, will change our way of scientific thinking.
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