The Nature of Space and Time: Princeton Science Library: 3 - Softcover

Penrose, Roger; Hawking, Stephen

 
9780691168449: The Nature of Space and Time: Princeton Science Library: 3
Softcover
ISBN 10: 069116844X ISBN 13: 9780691168449
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Roger Penrose is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
069116844X
ISBN 13 
9780691168449
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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