Smolin's hypothesis of cosmological natural selection, also called the fecund universes theory, suggests that a process analogous to biological natural selection applies at the grandest of scales. QM and consciousnes, to appear from OUP in 2022. While many great physicists have been prey to neo-platonic grandiosity as to how the universe works, theyre not being physicists when they think like that. State College PA (Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2000)gr-qc/0104097. Lee Smolin, Nonlocal beables, International Journal of Quantum Foundations, 1 (2015) 100-106. Or one of them group working sessions, then beer. This causes enormous problems in the scientific community, as you get lots of people who arent really doing science any []. 2. Lee Smolin Comments: 26 pages, one figure and caption taken from McGaugh, Lelli, Schombert, arXiv:1609.05917v1 Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) [19] arXiv:1608.02932 [ pdf, other] Holographic relations in loop quantum gravity Lee Smolin Comments: 21 pages, many figures Never mind how does life work, tell me why life works at all! Again; this problem is an aesthetic guess how he thinks things should be. My interest has real consequences. Id go so far as to say this is probably a symptom of the type of mental illness which thinks doing quantum gravity is important because it must be so, aesthetically. info@brainnest.org +233 2490 647 92; olika typer av narcissister; dan andersson till min syster; finnish fashion trends Physicists have no business doing their work in these fields. After him are Vijay Mallya, Francesco Guidolin, Patrick Achi, William Kentridge, Martin Hoffmann, and Susi Snchez. `Invited Talk: Quantum gravity and the origin of quantum theory, May 23 2005, Institute of Physics, UK Conference A CENTURY AFTER EINSTEIN Pittsburgh university philosophy talk, Pittsburgh, United States, (2021). Ill have to counter with beef about your five problems. Generic predictions of quantum theories of gravity, Lee Smolin. 36. " Interaction-Free Effects Between Distant Atoms Behaving. Unlike something like the Gutzwiller trace formula, which was a real breakthrough with consequences; all this appears to be folly. Quantum Energetic Causal Sets the big picture of what structural organization events occur (like mitosis) are solved by brute microscopic observation and what remains are details of what genes and chemical mechanisms are associated with getting those rearrangements to occur. So if wishes are horses lets go with that one. Yakir Aharonov, Eliahu Cohen, Avshalom C. Elitzur, Lee Smolin Assuming gravity does have a quantum limit may be the great intellectual folly of theoretical physics of the last 50 years. [citation needed] Later this figure was raised to two solar masses following more precise modeling of neutron star interiors by nuclear astrophysicists. Anyway, its just a dumb example of an important problem that requires no machinery the size of the universe to solve: there are lots of interesting things people could be thinking about in great numbers but aint. Smolin's 2006 book The Trouble with Physics explored the role of controversy and disagreement in the progress of science. The Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. The thermodynamics of quantum spacetime histories, Lee Smolin. Theyre being art critics. Joao Magueijo, Lee Smolin, Lorentz invariance with an invariant energy scale, Phys.Rev.Lett. Throwing away the simple, effective idea of judging physicists based on something resembling competence isnt going to get us anywhere good. In my more unkind moments I wonder if this profusion of quantum gravity guys is due to a lack of career risk taking. A founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Smolin has made contributions to quantum gravity theory, specifically the approach known as loop quantum gravity. Get real Space It's. Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin, Quantum geometry with intrinsic local causality, Phys.Rev. Smolin is married to Dina Graser, a lawyer and urban policy consultant in Toronto, Ontario. "Time Reborn places reality above theory in stronger and clearer terms than ever before, and the result is a path to better theory and potentially to a . When: November 30, 2021 4:30pm to 6:30pm The Voices of Culture at the University of Arizona presents award winning physicist Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics for a virtual talk on Tuesday, Nov. 30. Not being a physicist, are there any other promising lines of research attempting to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity, other than quantum gravity? Views, variety and celestial spheresAuthors:Lee Smolin. D58 (1998) 084032. Both predictions have held up, and they demonstrate Smolin's main thesis: that the theory of cosmological natural selection is Popper falsifiable. Analisa as implicaes filosficas dos avanos em fsica e cosmologia: Rather, the best you can do is hire smart people and see where there interests take them. Cosmological signatures of time-asymmetric gravity, Marina Corts, Andrew R. Liddle, Lee Smolin. Theor. There is no algorithm for making a physical prediction which can be verified by experiment; you have to be good, you have to be lucky, and you have to be right (much like in finance). Preprint version: The case for background independence}, hep-th/0507235. When the future is barred to them, the admirable past may be a solace for the ills of the moribund, the sickly, the prisoner But we want no part of it, the past, we the young and strong Futurist physicists! D67 (2003) 044017. ), Joao Magueijo(Brown U. and Imperial Coll., London and Perimeter Inst. by Lee Smolin. [2] He held postdoctoral research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago, before becoming a faculty member at Yale, Syracuse and Pennsylvania State Universities. You really dont choose to be a high energy theoretical physicist because you think youre going to get a job. Its not because theres some horrible threat hanging over us if we do something else and its really not because were sheep. The flow smoothly part is important, if thats not true one would be stuck with theories that would be logically and experimentally incompatible. Stephon Alexander, Lee Smolin. In reality, it explains phenomena on a vast range of scales - from elementary. Im not a big fan of cosmologists; youre right theyre more accountable than QG guys, but not much more. Not even the beginning of a beginning understanding. The theoretical physicist Lee Smolin puts a psychological and sociological slant on the issue of Platonism in physics when he discusses the personal motivations of Platonist philosophers and . There is a deeper problem, perhaps going back to the beginning of physics.[10]. And what is there to see in quantum gravity except the laborious contortions of an artist throwing himself against the barriers that thwart his desire to express his dream of original research? Admiring unification theory is the same as pouring our sensibility into a funerary urn instead of hurtling it far off, in violent spasms of action and creation. Youve deserved that as slaves with income a merci solely to your masters. Laurent Freidel, Lee Smolin, The linearization of the Kodama state, Class.Quant.Grav. Verified email at perimeterinstitute.ca. argument for the elimination of time. It was a lesson in the foolishness of once great thinkers. Paperback. Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. My personal historical inspiration for studying physics was the period from 1647 1960. Because it is barely studied, and because of the nature of how science gets funded, there are no professorial chairs available for this problem at all. I remember thinking for a while that Twistor theory was kind of interesting. April 2007. Sure, dark matter and so on are interesting and worth thinking about, and it is nice to have someone telling the telescope johnnies what to look for, but there are far more frightening lacunae in physics which should be on this list. Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin, Causal evolution of spin networks, Nucl.Phys. Einstein was also a communist, and we know that communism was a very, very bad idea. Its what I have done, and freed of the bureaucratic need to churn out nonsense papers, or spend my time baking vacuum chambers, my creativity has blossomed. He is author of The Trouble With Physics and Time Reborn. He has the last few years been pioneering a new direction based on the hypothesis that time is a fundamental and irreducible aspect of nature, and that the fundamental laws of nature evolve irreversibly. Temporal. Gamma Ray Bursts, The Principle of Relative Locality and Connection Normal Coordinates Future of science. Klopsteg Memorial Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), 2009. Both books explain the sociological and economic forces in building up a large community of very smart people which doesnt function properly. 50 years later, all manner of practical uses were found for it. -An extension of the Plebanski formulation of general relativity which leads to a unification with Yang-Mills and Higgs fields, in collaboration with Garrett Lisi and Simone Speziale. There is of course, some subtle philosophical argument to be had here about weather cosmology is really science, since although we can test theories, we cant do repeated experiments (theres only one universe). He has made contributions to quantum gravity theory, in particular the approach known as loop quantum gravity. Vincent Price Last Man on Earth. Im with you on the various non-trivial problems not explainable by physics. Strings make predictions at absurd untestable energies. You and I both know why people think its important: aesthetics and because famous people said it was important, and the leaders of physics have said it was important for something approaching a century now. His previous books include The Trouble with Physics, The Life of the Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. Stephon Alexander,Marina Corts,Andrew R. Liddle,Joo Magueijo,Robert Sims,Lee Smolin, The cosmology of minimal varying Lambda theories. Lee Smolin, Extending dualities to trialities deepens the foundations of dynamics. After all Philip is only so amusing. His brother is David M. Smolin. Much of the work in local effects of 2LT has been hashed out by chemists and biophysicists (an awful moniker for what is basically a chemist); so naturally its left the area of concern of physics. Anyway, before we each get out our numchucks: I got to go do some work. Lee Smolin Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. In a 2009 article, Smolin articulated the following philosophical views (the sentences in italics are quotations): Smolin views rejecting the idea of a creator as essential to cosmology on similar grounds to his objections against the multiverse. Smolin's description of how quantum mechanics works is both elegant and accessible using real world examples like the order you put your clothes on underwear first and pants second vs. the . Im not some kind of lone heretic in saying this: Im stealing the idea from people much smarter than I. So some GR equation has a quantum limit: everything in classical physics has a quantum limit! And those techniques lie at the heart of our modern understanding of soft and hard condensed matter (polymers, glasses, superconductors electronic devices etc. Here he talks about that day, his theory of PD and the journey he had been on to getting DBS. I was schooled in theoretical physics but have never worked in the field, but I was astounded at the displays of venom I witnessed when the names Smolin and Anderson were raised. After him are Paul Peter Ewald, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Edward Condon, Leonid Sedov, Mark Oliphant, and Zoltn Lajos Bay. Read more on Wikipedia. Thanks for your well written and thoughtful reply, Nav: Well, it might be interesting for me to take issue with why the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and the arrow of time are very interesting subjects -ones which could deeply impact ordinary life for billions of people; that would defeat my main purpose. Noisy soccer balls. Smolin published the idea in 1992 and summarized it in a book aimed at a lay audience called The Life of the Cosmos. I now realize this was an exceptional and fruitful period. [16] The Trouble with Physics was named by Newsweek magazine as number 17 on a list of 50 "Books for our Time", June 27, 2009. International loop quantum gravity seminar, Oct 21, 2008, Can observation determine whether spacetime is emergent? Theor. In fecund theory a collapsing[clarification needed] black hole causes the emergence of a new universe on the "other side", whose fundamental constant parameters (masses of elementary particles, Planck constant, elementary charge, and so forth) may differ slightly from those of the universe where the black hole collapsed. It is positively heretical to people who worship education as some kind of secular sacrament. An interesting observation which might be made is how physics followed many other formerly rigorous fields in to the badlands of theory. String theory is to Victorian physics what modern Literary theory or artistic technique is to their Victorian analogs. In the. I wonder if the institutions behind all this work have been built up to such a point that theres significant pressure to NOT work on something more verifiable, as proving it all wrong could bring the whole thing crashing down. and hilarious as well! Rather, the sociological value of enterprise is determined by some appropriate combination of what individuals think is important. Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, Cambridge University Press, November, 2014. This one is good. With Rovelli he discovered the discreteness of areas and volumes and found their natural expression in terms of a discrete description of quantum geometry in terms of spin networks. Born in New York City, Lee was educated at Hampshire College and Harvard University. Unification of the state with the dynamical law, Lee Smolin. Reversing the irreversible: from limit cycles to emergent time symmetry Smolin's groundbreaking theory postulates that physical laws can evolve over time and the future is not yet determined. A number of people have asked me to reply to a review of The Trouble with Physics by Joe Polchinski. Chiral matter as excitations of quantum Geometry, April 10, 2007, Emergent chiral excitations of quantum geometries: progress report Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. The poorest point I ever read on the matter. Stephon Alexander, Antonino Marciano, Lee Smolin, Gravitational origin of the weak interaction's chirality. Here is the Scott Locklins five most important unanswered unquestions in theoretical physics today: I have this idea that physics, along with Western civilization in general, never fully escaped from the wandervogel era playing indian in the woods navel gazing of post WW-1 Europe. Really, I count Progogine as a physicist, despite his unfortunate background. This really isnt the case for the folks I know in condensed matter physics (for example), who have pretty much all ended up doing physics, even if in industry rather than academia. You ultra high energy guys forget about what happens in real dynamical systems which exist in potential wells; its not just an uninteresting, messy limit: its where really weird stuff happens. (2) When rational argument from public evidence does not suffice to decide a question, the community must encourage a diverse range of viewpoints and hypotheses consistent with a good-faith attempt to develop convincing public evidence." [12] He does not definitively exclude or reject religion or mysticism but rather believes that science should only deal with that of which is observable. This has largely been worked out by biology, biochemistry, and a few patches are being put on by biophysics (like the forces of how DNA unwinds and muscles contract). Joao Magueijo, Lee Smolin, Generalized Lorentz invariance with an invariant energy scale, Phys.Rev. https://thewalrus.ca/about/supporters/#erc. Physicists did better before they were required by their Universities to engage in ritual Maoist witch hunts against racism and sexism. -The role of gauge invariance in models of economic markets, such as the Arrow-Debreu model and agent based models. In that book, he also favored the holographic principle. Smolin Vs Susskind: Part 3 Ripping On Lenny. The way they are chipping away, is, as you say, kind of reductionist: and so it might never bear any fruit. Auteur : Lee Smolin Catgorie : Livres anglais et trangers,Science,Physics Broch : * pages diteur : * Langue : Franais, Anglais "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject."--Scientific AmericanIn Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final . Much deeper than noodle theory. arXiv.orgquant-ph, Lee Smolin, C VerdeThe quantum mechanics of the present, arXiv preprint. However, even a mercenary dirtbag like me can come up with a better list than Lee Smolin, or, for that matter, any physicist in the public eye today. May 10-12 2021 Arizona Beyond Centre, Laws of nature, "The Place of qualia in a relational universe," presented at NYU at GIAS Institute symposium on QUantum mechanics and consciousness. AN 20, 2015 THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE PLANCK SCALE, PLENARY TALK. What Im attempting to do here is deny quantum gravity the prestige its practitioners think it is entitled to. How do neural computers, aka brains work? He was formerly a professor at Yale, Syracuse and Penn State Universities and held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara and the Enrico Fermi Institute, the University of Chicago. Wouldnt you say that is a very large number for what may be a mysterious phenomenon, but why such a big fraction of the total number of physicists? Aug 23, 2013, Time Reborn, Institute of Physics, London, May 21, 2013, Temporal naturalism, Oxford University philosophy department Lee Smolin, A perspective on the landscape problem, Invited contribution for a special issue of Foundations of Physics titled: Forty Years Of String Theory: Reflecting On the Foundations, DOI: 10.1007/s10701-012-9652-x . "Time is real", January 26, 2010, Fermilab Astrophysics Seminar A real ensemble interpretation of quantum mechanics, invited plenary talk via video link to Templeton conference on quantum foundations, July 8 2011, The principle of relative locality, invited Plenary talk, Loops 11 conference Madrid. Before him are K. Eric Drexler, Roberto Pruzzo, Bruno Pezzey, Enzo Ghinazzi, Jeff Perry, and Rolf Lvland. The fact that nothing good has come of unification physics in that near-century ought to be an indication that this question is accorded low prestige by the universe itself. 88 (2002) 190403. In 2007 he was awarded the Majorana Prize from the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics, and in 2009 the Klopsteg Memorial Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for "extraordinary accomplishments in communicating the excitement of physics to the general public," He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Physical Society. "[14], He also advocates "principles for an open future" which he claims underlie the work of both healthy scientific communities and democratic societies: Invited Session: "Lee Smolin", "Laws Must Evolve to be Explained: A Physicist"s Perspective on a Proposal of Peirce", Peirce Centennary meeting, Lowell MA, videolink, Canadian Association for the History and Philosophy of Science, Plenary: Author meets critics: Smolin"s Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe. Speakers: Rick Arthur, McMaster University; Kathleen Okruhlik, University of Western Ontario; Denis Walsh, University of Toronto; Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute. Its worth pointing out as well that its a little unfair lumping together quantum gravity and cosmology. And I agree that Wilsons Nobel was an awesome achievement. NYU workshop on Space, Time and Experience, organized by David Chalmers where my Temporal Naturalism paper was read and critiqued by David Albert, L.A. Paul, Tim Maudlin, Chalmers and others. 405: 2011: Nonperturbative quantum geometries. Gordon McOuat, University of King"s College (organizer), "Temporal Naturalism: The Reality of Time and the Evolution of Laws in Cosmology", invited talk, New Directions in the Foundations of Physics, Washington DC. Saying 1647-1960 was an exceptional period, well, that seems wrong to me somehow. A computer-generated artwork inspired by quantum mechanics. List of 100 most influential public intellectuals, Prospect and Foreign Policy Magazines, 2008. Among the issues his papers address in the last decade are: This is PART III of the four part series about the Edge discussion between Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind. Moreover (and Ill concede being on a limb here), there is a sense in which even the least useful of pursuits has intrinsic value. ", "Time Reborn: a new theory of time - a new view of the world", Last edited on 15 December 2022, at 18:32, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, effects of quantum gravity can be experimentally probed, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy, Einsteins Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum, "The Institute for Advanced Study. The prestige accorded such ideas is misplaced. "The principle of relative locality" University of Toronto philosophy department seminar. -The principle of relative locality, a new extension of special relativity applicable to the phenomenology of quantum gravity. A few months later a more concise text was made available in a paper with the title Temporal Naturalism.[7]. B508 (1997) 409-430. CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN EPISTMOLOGIE APPLIQUE, Paris, Invited lecture, Also: I blame you if the invitations to drink beer with physicists dry up because of this. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too. His father was Michael Smolin, an environmental and process engineer and his mother was the playwright Pauline Smolin. Lee Smolin not only provides a brilliant layman's overview of current research as we attempt to build a 'theory of everything . ), along with shaping our comprehension of phase transitions (possibly the single greatest achievement in theoretical physics in the late 20th century was Wilsons use of the renormalisation group to explain critical exponents in phase transitions). In quantum gravity Dr. Smolin was one of the initiators of two research programs: loop quantum gravity and deformed special relativity. June 6, 2015 "The identify of the indiscernible as a physical principle", Centenary Perspectives on General Relativity, Rotman Institute for Philosophy, University of Western Ontario. The present moment in quantum cosmology: challenges to the arguments for I must respectfully disagree with all but his second one. In his earlier book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2002), Smolin stated that loop quantum gravity and string theory were essentially the same concept seen from different perspectives. Cosmological natural selection - Wikipedia. These include very high energy cosmic rays and photons and neutrinos from gamma ray bursts. Call them the physics equivalents of the hailstone problem. Im a lowlife quant: I went to a cow college and did fairly badly for myself while I was screwing around in physics. A handful of truly physics problems exist (magnetoception) but it seems like the biochemists, by virtue of a few people who understand the physics behind the wonderful instrumentation that physicts and materials chemists have bestowed upon them seem to be chipping away at figuring it out. -Quantum gravity phenomenology, in particular the constraints on deforming and breaking lorentz invariance coming from observations of Gamma Ray Bursts from the Fermi space telescope, in collaboration with Giovanni Amelino-Camelia. Background independent approaches to string theory, Contributions to the philosophy of physics. Lubos Motl is a righteous peckerwood for a mainstream physicist. What all quantum gravity people (Smolin and his crew of merry misfits included with the string theorists) are doing is entirely aesthetically driven. It surprises me, conversely that there so, so many distinctly non-fundamental questions in physics which are easy to state and quite easy to observe but difficult to explain. Quantum gravity may be a silly question. > Dont do it just because Einstein did it. So let them come, the gay incendiaries with charred fingers! There is an obvious algorithm for getting a job in string theory. He is the author of The Life of the Cosmos and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity. On the other hand, evolution has this problem as well (until we find life on other planets), and I think we can all agree that Darwin was a scientist. One youre confronted with every day when you put sugar on your cheerios. (Time Reborn p 265.). Professor, Aug. 1983-Dec. 1984 Enrico Fermi Institute, U. of Chicago postdoc, Sept. 1981-July 1983 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton member, Jan. 1980-Aug. 1981 Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB Santa Barbara, postdoc, Sept.-Dec. 1979 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, member. Lee Smolin (; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto.. Among physicists born in United States, Lee Smolin ranks 133. The basis of this wide-ranging conversation are Lee Smolin's books Life of the Cosmos and Time Reborn. A note on the Plebanski action with cosmological constant and an Immirzi parameter, Lee Smolin, Simone Speziale, arxiv:gr-qc/0908.3388, Phys.Rev.D81:024032,2010. Very few of my former colleagues will stand up for me and talk about my ultimate brilliance, because frankly, I didnt display any. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Instead I am being appointed to the National Advisory Committee. Invited Pleanary: "Science as an ethical community, June 2010, Science, Facts and Values Conference, UWO Philosophy Department Im sure the reason some people do is he and Anderson (among others) are laughing at the pretensions of the 10,000 or so String-a-dings out there counting angels on the heads of pins. If he reads this, hell probably dismiss me as an insignificant dunderhead who couldnt make it in physics: thats one of the reasons I like the guy; I respect a straight shooter. Dont do it just because Einstein did it. Id also agree that fundamental physics is basically useless. Special issue: Complexity and Criticality: in memory of Per Bak (1947--2002) - Time, of course, seems real to us. Invited talk: "Science as a network of ethical communities", May 14, 2010, Physics Colloquium, Haveford College Last point, for now. Flying Circus of Physics is a great book which talks about some such problems. I find this sociology argument insulting. Smolin contributed to the theory of loop quantum gravity (LQG) in collaborative work with Ted Jacobson, Carlo Rovelli, Louis Crane, Abhay Ashtekar and others. Ulf von Rauchhaupt. He was not an aesthetician, though he might create something of great aesthetic merit. [] October 17, 2009 Today, I was inspired by a post of Dr. Scott Locklin, which can be found here. Renewed in 2019, August 1993-Dec 2001 Pennsylvania State University, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Professor, July 1988-July 1993 Syracuse University Associate Professor to Professor, July1984-June 1988, Yale University, Ast. Lee Smolin disagrees, and in Time Reborn he lays out the case why. Quantum . Before him are Maurice Goldhaber, Alfred Ewing, Frank Oppenheimer, Leo Kadanoff, Ursula Franklin, and Barys Kit. Holography in a quantum spacetime, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin, Cosmological natural selection as the explanation for the complexity Matrix models as non-local hidden variables theories, Lee Smolin. Abhayfest, Penn State University, June 5, 2009, Darwinism in cosmology, Darwin Conference, MacMaster University, May 25, 2009, Testing parity breaking in quantum gravity with inflation August 2006. Smolin also predicted that inflation, if true, must only be in its simplest form, governed by a single field and parameter. 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