The Nature of Space and Time

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.