Lee Smolin



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, in Ontario, Canada, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. He was part of a team that wrote the first equations on quantum gravity, an attempt to unify quantum mechanics with theories of gravity like Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

Through his book , he establishes the claim that space is not empty but full of energy forming a discrete fabric. This fabric is described as a lattice of spin-networks by Roger Penrose, and through a series of loop quantum gravity equations by Carlo Rovelli. This work was also expanded on by Nassim Haramein who describes the geometry of the fabric of space as intersecting Planck-scale spheres.

Luboš Motl considers Smolin an evil crackpot, as he does anyone failing to see the truth of string theory, but Smolin particularly pisses him off.