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Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin propose relies on three central ideas. There is only one universe at a time. Time is real: everything in the structure and regularities of nature changes sooner or later. Mathematics, which has trouble with time, is not the oracle of nature and the prophet of science; it is simply a tool with great power and immense limitations. The argument is readily accessible to non-scientists as well as to the physicists and cosmologists whom it challenges.

Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin propose relies on three central ideas. There is only one universe at a time. Time is real: everything in the structure and regularities of nature changes sooner or later. Mathematics, which has trouble with time, is not the oracle of nature and the prophet of science; it is simply a tool with great power and immense limitations. The argument is readily accessible to non-scientists as well as to the physicists and cosmologists whom it challenges.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021______________________________________________'A literary star' Guardian 'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail 'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris'It moved me to tears' Elizabeth Day'Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent' Sally Rooney'Takes us on a complex journey' Financial Times'A formidably gifted writer' New York Times Book Review______________________________________________This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen. It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back.It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully pr

《奇異宇宙與時間現實》通過哲學家與物理學家的碰撞，探索宇宙學危機，駁斥多元宇宙論、相異宇宙論。為讀者詮釋自然規律的本源，解釋自然的變化過程以及時間的真實性與變化。本書宣導對宇宙學規律進行革新，為了保持宇宙學的科學性，我們要用一種不斷變化發展的新規律來替代掌控宇宙學那萬世不變的舊學說。唯有如此，方有望解釋那些迷霧般的規律。《奇異宇宙與時間現實》提出的了三個革命性學說。其一，同一時間只存在一個宇宙。其二，時間真實存在：時間框架下的任何物質和自然的所有規律遲早都會發生變化。其三，數學和時間存在分歧，因此它無法預示自然，抑或預示科學，它不過是一種強有力的工具，數學自身本就存在著巨大的制約性。《奇異宇宙與時間現實》具有較強的學術價值，適合國內的天文學、宇宙學、物理學學者們研讀，並進行學術交流，同時也適合廣大天體科學愛好者們閱讀，提高大家對科學的認識。