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- Book Title
- THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Book Series
- Isaac Newton Institute Series Of Lectures
- Pages
- 150
- Title
- THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME Hawking, Stephen W. & Roger
- Printing
- 5th Printing
- Book Condition
- New in New dust jacket
- Defects
- New
- Subject
- Math & Science
- ISBN
- 9780691037912
- Publication Name
- Nature of Space and Time
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Series
- Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 150 Pages
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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 in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the world's most famous physicists--Stephen Hawking ( A Brief History of Time ) and Roger Penrose ( The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind )--disagree. Here they explain their positions in a work based on six lectures with a final debate, all originally presented at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. How could quantum gravity, a theory that could explain the earlier moments of the big bang and the physics of the enigmatic objects known as black holes, be constructed? Why does our patch of the universe look just as Einstein predicted, with no hint of quantum effects in sight? What strange quantum processes can cause black holes to evaporate, and what happens to all the information that they swallow? Why does time go forward, not backward? In this book, the two opponents touch on all these questions. Penrose, like Einstein, refuses to believe that quantum mechanics is a final theory. Hawking thinks otherwise, and argues that general relativity simply cannot account for how the universe began. Only a quantum theory of gravity, coupled with the no-boundary hypothesis, can ever hope to explain adequately what little we can observe about our universe. Penrose, playing the realist to Hawking's positivist, thinks that the universe is unbounded and will expand forever. The universe can be understood, he argues, in terms of the geometry of light cones, the compression and distortion of spacetime, and by the use of twistor theory. With the final debate, the reader will come to realize how much Hawking and Penrose diverge in their opinions of the ultimate quest to combine quantum mechanics and relativity, and how differently they have tried to comprehend the incomprehensible.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691037914
ISBN-13
9780691037912
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993578
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Nature of Space and Time
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
150 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Qc173.59.S65h4 1996
Reviews
Over the past thirty years, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose have done more than anyone to further our understanding of the nature of gravitation and cosmology. . . . The Nature of Space and Time is the result of their attempt to stage a structured dialogue about these problems, to isolate points of disagreement, and stimulate further investigation of these problems. . . . The debate between Hawking and Penrose is a live one between brilliant scientists. . . . This elegant little volume provides a clear account of two approaches to some of the greatest unsolved problems of gravitation and cosmology. ---John Barrow, New Scientist, "Over the past thirty years, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose have done more than anyone to further our understanding of the nature of gravitation and cosmology. . . . The Nature of Space and Time is the result of their attempt to stage a structured dialogue about these problems, to isolate points of disagreement, and stimulate further investigation of these problems. . . . The debate between Hawking and Penrose is a live one between brilliant scientists. . . . This elegant little volume provides a clear account of two approaches to some of the greatest unsolved problems of gravitation and cosmology." ---John Barrow, New Scientist, "A debate between Hawking and Penrose ... raises the reader's expectations of a lively interaction, and this is fully borne out in the transcribed discussion.... Hawking's effervescent sense of humour frequently enlivens the text."-- Joseph Silk, The Times Higher Education Supplement, "This is an interesting book to read now, but it promises to become an even more interesting book for future generations of physicists."-- Robert M. Wald, Science, "This is a very courteous and intellectually stimulating exchange between two first-rate minds." -- Library Journal, As well as providing an accurate scientific record of the lectures, the text has lost none of the drama of the original occasion, which stemmed from the almost antithetical views of the two protagonists on almost everything except the classical theory of general relativity., If there were such a thing as the World Professional Heavyweight Theory Debating Society, this would be the title bout., "If there were such a thing as the World Professional Heavyweight Theory Debating Society, this would be the title bout."-- Christopher Dornan, Toronto Globe & Mail, Over the past thirty years, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose have done more than anyone to further our understanding of the nature of gravitation and cosmology. . . . The Nature of Space and Time is the result of their attempt to stage a structured dialogue about these problems, to isolate points of disagreement, and stimulate further investigation of these problems. . . . The debate between Hawking and Penrose is a live one between brilliant scientists. . . . This elegant little volume provides a clear account of two approaches to some of the greatest unsolved problems of gravitation and cosmology., As well as providing an accurate scientific record of the lectures, the text has lost none of the drama of the original occasion, which stemmed from the almost antithetical views of the two protagonists on almost everything except the classical theory of general relativity. ---Gary Gibbons, Physics World, "As well as providing an accurate scientific record of the lectures, the text has lost none of the drama of the original occasion, which stemmed from the almost antithetical views of the two protagonists on almost everything except the classical theory of general relativity." ---Gary Gibbons, Physics World, "This is an interesting book to read now, but it promises to become an even more interesting book for future generations of physicists." --Robert M. Wald, Science, This is an interesting book to read now, but it promises to become an even more interesting book for future generations of physicists. ---Robert M. Wald, Science, "Over the past thirty years, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose have done more than anyone to further our understanding of the nature of gravitation and cosmology. . . . The Nature of Space and Time is the result of their attempt to stage a structured dialogue about these problems, to isolate points of disagreement, and stimulate further investigation of these problems. . . . The debate between Hawking and Penrose is a live one between brilliant scientists. . . . This elegant little volume provides a clear account of two approaches to some of the greatest unsolved problems of gravitation and cosmology."-- John Barrow, New Scientist, "I found great satisfaction and not inconsiderable benefit from my efforts. . . . The clarity and brilliance of Hawking's logic would break through in simple straightforward terms. . . . This provided a real thrill."-- Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review, "I found great satisfaction and not inconsiderable benefit from my efforts. . . . The clarity and brilliance of Hawking's logic would break through in simple straightforward terms. . . . This provided a real thrill." ---Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review, "This is an interesting book to read now, but it promises to become an even more interesting book for future generations of physicists." ---Robert M. Wald, Science, "Over the past thirty years, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose have done more than anyone to further our understanding of the nature of gravitation and cosmology. . . . The Nature of Space and Time is the result of their attempt to stage a structured dialogue about these problems, to isolate points of disagreement, and stimulate further investigation of these problems. . . . The debate between Hawking and Penrose is a live one between brilliant scientists. . . . This elegant little volume provides a clear account of two approaches to some of the greatest unsolved problems of gravitation and cosmology." --John Barrow, New Scientist, "As well as providing an accurate scientific record of the lectures, the text has lost none of the drama of the original occasion, which stemmed from the almost antithetical views of the two protagonists on almost everything except the classical theory of general relativity."-- Gary Gibbons, Physics World, "If there were such a thing as the World Professional Heavyweight Theory Debating Society, this would be the title bout." --Christopher Dornan, Toronto Globe & Mail, I found great satisfaction and not inconsiderable benefit from my efforts. . . . The clarity and brilliance of Hawking's logic would break through in simple straightforward terms. . . . This provided a real thrill. ---Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review, "I found great satisfaction and not inconsiderable benefit from my efforts. . . . The clarity and brilliance of Hawking's logic would break through in simple straightforward terms. . . . This provided a real thrill." --Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review, This is an interesting book to read now, but it promises to become an even more interesting book for future generations of physicists., If there were such a thing as the World Professional Heavyweight Theory Debating Society, this would be the title bout. ---Christopher Dornan, Toronto Globe & Mail, "A debate between Hawking and Penrose ... raises the reader's expectations of a lively interaction, and this is fully borne out in the transcribed discussion.... Hawking's effervescent sense of humour frequently enlivens the text." ---Joseph Silk, The Times Higher Education Supplement, A debate between Hawking and Penrose ... raises the reader's expectations of a lively interaction, and this is fully borne out in the transcribed discussion.... Hawking's effervescent sense of humour frequently enlivens the text., A debate between Hawking and Penrose ... raises the reader's expectations of a lively interaction, and this is fully borne out in the transcribed discussion.... Hawking's effervescent sense of humour frequently enlivens the text. ---Joseph Silk, The Times Higher Education Supplement, I found great satisfaction and not inconsiderable benefit from my efforts. . . . The clarity and brilliance of Hawking's logic would break through in simple straightforward terms. . . . This provided a real thrill., "A debate between Hawking and Penrose ... raises the reader's expectations of a lively interaction, and this is fully borne out in the transcribed discussion.... Hawking's effervescent sense of humour frequently enlivens the text." --Joseph Silk, The Times Higher Education Supplement, "If there were such a thing as the World Professional Heavyweight Theory Debating Society, this would be the title bout." ---Christopher Dornan, Toronto Globe & Mail, "This is a very courteous and intellectually stimulating exchange between two first-rate minds."-- Library Journal, "As well as providing an accurate scientific record of the lectures, the text has lost none of the drama of the original occasion, which stemmed from the almost antithetical views of the two protagonists on almost everything except the classical theory of general relativity." --Gary Gibbons, Physics World
Table of Content
* Classical Theory (Hawking) * Structure of Spacetime Singularities (Penrose) * Quantum Black Holes (Hawking) * Quantum Theory and Spacetime (Penrose) * Quantum Cosmology (Hawking) * The Twistor View of Spacetime (Penrose) * The Debate (Hawking and Penrose)
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Physics / Quantum Theory, Physics / Astrophysics, Cosmology, Time, Physics / General
Lccn
95-035582
Dewey Decimal
530.11
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Science
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