The Nature Of Space And Time - Couverture souple

Penrose, Roger; Hawking, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691050848 ISBN 13 : 9780691050843

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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. Michael Atiyah, Master of Trinity College Cambridge, and former President of the Royal Society, has written a foreword for this book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0691050848
• ISBN 13: 9780691050843
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible