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4. Barbour, The End of Time, 47
5. Ibid., 229
6. Quotes with Albrecht come from interview with author.
7. Andreas Albrecht et al., “New Inflation in Supersymmetric Theories,” Nuclear Physics B 229 (1983): 528.
8. See James Hartle, “Theories of Everything and Hawking’s Wave Function of the Universe,” in The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking, ed. G. W. Gibbons, P. Shellard, and S. J. Rankin (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 38.
9. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), 140.
10. Andreas Albrecht and Alberto Iglesias. “The Clock Ambiguity: Implications and New Developments,” in The Origin of Time’s Arrow (New York: New York Academy of Sciences Press, 2008).
11. John Archibald Wheeler and Hubery [Ż]urek Wojciech, eds., Quantum Theory and Measurement (New York: Princeton University Press, 1983).
12. Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (New York: Basic Books, 2001).
13. Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theory (New York: Free Press, 1976); Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound (New York: Harvard University Press, 2007).
14. Quotes from Smolin and Unger come from interviews with author.
15. Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
16. Lee Smolin, “On the Reality of Time and the Evolution of Laws,” (Work in progress presented at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada, October 2, 2008).
17. Lee Smolin, “The Unique Universe,” Physics World (June 2009): 26.
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1. Jeremy Rifkin, Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), 123.
2. This quote comes from comes from English economist and philosopher Sir William Petty in 1682. Peter C. Dooley, The Labour Theory of Value (New York: Routledge, 2005), 30.
3. Rifkin, Time Wars, 127.
4. For an entertaining and somewhat curmudgeonly overview of oil supply and other resource depletion issues, see James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Grove Press, 2006).
5. Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (New York: New Press, 2009).
6. M. Barret, “ATLAS Experiment Reports Its First Physics Results from the LHC,” http://atlas.ch/news/2010/first-physics.html (accessed February 20, 2011); “The Sensitive Giant: At CERN, ATLAS Effort Emphasizing People Skills,” U.S. Department of Energy Research News, http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2004-03/dnal-tsg032604.php (accessed February 20, 2011).
7. Barret, “ATLAS Experiment Reports.”
8. Ibid.
9. Jonathan Leake, “Big Bang at the Atomic Lab After the Scientists Got Their Maths Wrong,” Sunday Times (London), April 8, 2007.
10. Alan Sokal, “A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies,” Lingua Franca (May–June 1996).
11. Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 59.
12. Edward Harrison, Masks of the Universe (New York: Macmillan, 1985), 2, 1.
13. “Slow Food,” http://www.slowfood.com/about_us/eng/mission.lasso (accessed February 20, 2011).
14. Alain Ducasse, “Carlo Petrini: The Slow Revolutionary,” Time Europe, October 11, 2004.
15. The Sanskrit term is prat[ī]tyasamutp[ā]da, sometimes translated as “dependent co-arising” or “dependent origination.” For a scholarly examination of dependent arising and causation, see Jay L. Garfield, Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 24.
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