
The Nature of Space and Time
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691037914
ISBN 13: 9780691037912
Publication date:
January 28th, 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 150
Genres: Action & Adventure, Science & Technology, History
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? Two Of The World's Most Famous Physicists--stephen Hawking And Roger Penrose--disagree On This. 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.--from Publisher Description. Classical Theory / Stephen Hawking -- Structure Of Spacetime Singularities / Roger Penrose -- Quantum Black Holes / Stephen Hawking -- Quantum Theory And Spacetime / Roger Penrose -- Quantum Cosmology / Stephen Hawking -- Twistor View Of Spacetime / Roger Penrose -- Debate / Stephen Hawking And Roger Penrose. Stephen Hawking And Roger Penrose. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [139]-141.