Hawking / Penrose The Nature of Space and Time

With a New afterword by the authors
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3474-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 160 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Science LibraryIsaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawking, Stephen

Penrose, Roger

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hawking, Stephen

Penrose, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Michael Atiyah vii

Acknowledgments ix

CHAPTER ONE Classical Theory, Stephen Hawking 3

CHAPTER TWO Structure of Spacetime Singularities, Roger Penrose 27

CHAPTER THREE Quantum Black Holes, Stephen Hawking 37

CHAPTER FOUR Quantum Theory and Spacetime, Roger Penrose 61

CHAPTER FIVE Quantum Cosmololgy, Stephen Hawking 75

CHAPTER SIX The Twistor View of Spacetime, Roger Penrose 105

CHAPTER SEVEN The Debate, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose 121

AFTERWORD TO THE 2010 EDITION The Debate Continues, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose 139

References 143

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Roger Penrose is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cycles of Time and The Road to Reality (both Vintage). He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.