The Nature of Space and Time
暫譯: 空間與時間的本質

Hawking, Stephen, Penrose, Roger, Hawking, Stephen

The Nature of Space and Time
  • 出版商: Princeton University Press
  • 出版日期: 2015-09-22
  • 售價: $830
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $789
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 160
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 069116844X
  • ISBN-13: 9780691168449
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics

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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

來自兩位世界偉大物理學家的對話——史蒂芬·霍金（Stephen Hawking）和諾貝爾獎得主羅傑·彭羅斯（Roger Penrose）——關於空間和時間的生動辯論

愛因斯坦曾說，宇宙中最難以理解的事情是它是可以理解的。但他是對的嗎？量子場論和愛因斯坦的廣義相對論，這兩個在物理學中最準確且成功的理論，能否統一成一個單一的量子重力理論？量子與宇宙能否結合？在《空間與時間的本質》（The Nature of Space and Time）一書中，兩位世界著名的物理學家——史蒂芬·霍金（《時間簡史》A Brief History of Time）和羅傑·彭羅斯（《通往現實之路》The Road to Reality）——對這些問題展開辯論。

作者概述了他們在多個關鍵議題上的立場如何進一步分歧，包括宇宙的空間幾何、膨脹理論與循環理論的對比，以及黑洞信息損失悖論。儘管已經取得了許多進展，霍金和彭羅斯強調，物理學家在尋求量子重力理論的過程中仍然有很長的路要走。

作者簡介

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.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

史蒂芬·霍金（Stephen Hawking，1942-2018）是劍橋大學的盧卡斯數學教授名譽教授。羅傑·彭羅斯（Roger Penrose）是一位諾貝爾獎得主的物理學家，也是《時間的循環》（Cycles of Time）和《通往現實之路》（The Road to Reality，均為Vintage出版社）的作者。他是牛津大學的羅斯·巴爾數學名譽教授。

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