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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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hawking, Stephen (Autor, Contribuidor), Penrose, Roger (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Hazvking, Stephen (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Edición:With a New afterword by the authors
Colección:Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures ; 100
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE. Classical Theory
  • CHAPTER Two. Structure of Spacetime Singularities
  • CHAPTER THREE. Quantum Black Holes
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Quantum Theory and Spacetime
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Quantum Cosmology
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Twistor View of Spacetime
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Debate
  • AFTERWORD TO THE 2010 EDITION. The Debate Continues
  • References