Time Reborn by Lee Smolin

From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Argues that time is real and fundamental rather than an illusion, challenging the prevailing timeless or block-universe view of physics; contends that laws of nature are not eternal fixed truths but can evolve, and that recognizing a dynamic, becoming universe offers a more coherent account of cosmology, the arrow of time, and the origin of laws while opening new directions for testable physics and scientific method.