The future of spacetime / Stephen W. Hawking ... [et al.] ; introduction by Richard Price. - First edition. - New York : Norton, c2002. - 220 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.


Originaludgave: 2002
Indhold: Richard Price: Introduction: Welcome to spacetime. Igor Novikov: Can we change the past? Stephen W. Hawking: Chronology protection: Making the world safe for historians. Kip S. Thorne: Spacetime warps and the quantum world: Speculations about the future. Timothy Ferris: On the popularization of science. Alan Lightman: The physicist as novelist

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Welcome to spacetime / Richard Price --
Can we change the past? / Igor Novikov --
Chronology protection: Making the world safe for historians / Stephen W. Hawking --
Spacetime warps and the quantum world: Speculations about the future / Kip S. Thorne --
On the popularization of science / Timothy Ferris --
The physicist as novelist / Alan Lightman.

Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers.

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Space and time.
Espacio y tiempo
Cosmología

QC 173.59 / F996 2002

QC173.59.S65