The Nature of Space and Time
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The Nature of Space and Time

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The Nature of Space and Time

About this book

From two of the world's great physicists—Stephen Hawking and Nobel laureate Roger Penrose—a lively debate about the nature of space and time

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united into a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? In The Nature of Space and Time, two of the world's most famous physicists—Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time) and Roger Penrose (The Road to Reality)—debate these questions.

The authors outline how their positions have further diverged on a number of key issues, including the spatial geometry of the universe, inflationary versus cyclic theories of the cosmos, and the black-hole information-loss paradox. Though much progress has been made, Hawking and Penrose stress that physicists still have further to go in their quest for a quantum theory of gravity.

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Information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780691150949
9780691037912
eBook ISBN
9781400834747
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Cosmology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter One: Classical Theory
  8. Chapter Two: Structure of Spacetime Singularities
  9. Chapter Three: Quantum Black Holes
  10. Chapter Four: Quantum Theory and Spacetime
  11. Chapter Five: Quantum Cosmology
  12. Chapter Six: The Twistor View of Spacetime
  13. Chapter Seven: The Debate
  14. Afterword to the 2010 Edition: The Debate Continues
  15. References

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