Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, writes exclusively in the June issue of Physics World explaining why theories of cosmology that suggest that our universe is just one of many - the so-called multiverse - and thus perpetuate the notion that time does not exist are flawed.

By LAURENCE PHELAN The great white hope of theoretical physics, which might produce a unified quantum theory of gravity and thus equates to a theory of everything, is string theory. Accordingly, it is the avenue down which the majority of research and funding has been going for the last few decades.

WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) is pleased to announce that renowned scientist Leonard Susskind has joined its Faculty as an Associate Member.

By JOHN GRIBBIN The Trouble with Physics is a frustrating book. It says important and interesting things in a readable and entertaining way - but it doesn't say them until the last quarter of the text. The essence of Lee Smolin's message is that physics has lost its way.

By ANDREW CRUMEY The Trouble With Physics Lee Smolin Allen Lane, GBP 20 THE trouble with physics, Lee Smolin claims, is that it has made remarkably little real progress in the last 30 years.