The Nature of Space and Time

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Princeton University Press, 8 feb 2010 - 160 pagina's

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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Inhoudsopgave

Classical Theory
3
Structure of Spacetime Singularities
27
Quantum Black Holes
37
Quantum Theory and Spacetime
61
Quantum Cosmology
75
The Twistor View of Spacetime
105
The Debate
121
The Debate Continues
139
References
143
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

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Over de auteur (2010)

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Roger Penrose is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cycles of Time and The Road to Reality (both Vintage). He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelThe Nature of Space and Time
Volume 40 van Princeton Science Library
Volume 3 van Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures
AuteursStephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
BijdragersStephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
Editieherzien
UitgeverPrinceton University Press, 2010
ISBN1400834740, 9781400834747
Lengte160 pagina's
  
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