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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHawking, Stephen, _d1942-2018. _963811
245	1	4	_aThe nature of space and time / _cStephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.
250			_a[New ed.] / _bwith a new afterword by the authors.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. ; _aWoodstock : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2010, �1996.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 145 pages) : _billustrations
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aPrinceton science library
490	1		_aIsaac Newton Institute series of lectures
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 143-145).
588	0		_aPrint version record.
520	0		_aEinstein 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.In a new afterword, the authors outline how recent developments have caused their positions to further diverge 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 much farther to go in their quest for a quantum theory of gravity.
590			_aIEEE _bIEEE Xplore Princeton University Press eBooks Library
650		0	_aSpace and time. _918432
650		0	_aQuantum theory. _93607
650		0	_aAstrophysics. _911132
650		0	_aCosmology. _94476
650		6	_aTh�eorie quantique. _963812
650		6	_aAstrophysique. _963813
650		6	_aCosmologie. _963814
650		7	_aastrophysics. _2aat _911132
650		7	_acosmology. _2aat _94476
650		7	_aSCIENCE _xPhysics _xRelativity. _2bisacsh _963815
650		7	_aSCIENCE _xPhysics _xGeneral. _2bisacsh _96160
650		7	_aAstrophysics. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00819797 _911132
650		7	_aCosmology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00880600 _94476
650		7	_aQuantum theory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01085128 _93607
650		7	_aSpace and time. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01127622 _918432
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
655		4	_aElectronic books. _93294
700	1		_aPenrose, Roger. _963816
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHawking, S.W. (Stephen W.). _tNature of space and time. _b[New ed.]. _dPrinceton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2010, �1996 _z9780691145709 _w(OCoLC)467756125
830		0	_aPrinceton science library. _963817
830		0	_aIsaac Newton Institute series of lectures. _963818
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