The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking's Contributions to PhysicsCambridge University Press, 23/10/2003 - 879 páginas Based on lectures given in honour of Stephen Hawking's sixtieth birthday, this book comprises contributions from some of the world's leading theoretical physicists. It begins with a section containing chapters by successful scientific popularisers, bringing to life both Hawking's work and other exciting developments in physics. The book then goes on to provide a critical evaluation of advanced subjects in modern cosmology and theoretical physics. Topics covered include the origin of the universe, warped spacetime, cosmological singularities, quantum gravity, black holes, string theory, quantum cosmology and inflation. As well as providing a fascinating overview of the wide variety of subject areas to which Stephen Hawking has contributed, this book represents an important assessment of prospects for the future of fundamental physics and cosmology. |
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Chris Isham Department of Physics | 73 |
Warping spacetime | 74 |
Stephen Hawking | 105 |
Spacetime singularities | 119 |
The quantum physics of chronology protection | 161 |
M theory and beyond | 453 |
String theory | 468 |
A brief description of string theory | 473 |
The story of M | 484 |
Gauged supergravity and holographic field theory | 494 |
De Sitter space | 537 |
De Sitter space in noncritical string theory | 570 |
Supergravity M theory and cosmology | 592 |
Energy dominance and the HawkingEllis vacuum | 177 |
Black holes | 203 |
Black holes in the real universe and their prospects | 217 |
Primordial black holes | 236 |
Black hole pair creation | 264 |
Black holes at accelerators | 278 |
Black holes and string theory | 291 |
Playing with black strings | 310 |
Twenty years of debate with Stephen | 330 |
Quantum gravity | 349 |
Zeta functions anomalies and stable branes | 373 |
Some reflections on the status of conventional quantum | 384 |
Quantum geometry and its ramifications | 409 |
Topology change in quantum gravity | 436 |
Quantum cosmology | 613 |
Don Page | 621 |
Quantum cosmology and eternal inflation | 649 |
Probability in the deterministic theory known | 667 |
The interpretation of quantum cosmology and | 675 |
What local supersymmetry can do for quantum | 693 |
Cosmology | 723 |
observational | 755 |
The ekpyrotic universe and its cyclic extension | 781 |
Inflationary theory versus the ekpyroticcyclic scenario | 801 |
Brane new worlds | 839 |
Publications of Stephen Hawking | 860 |
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Página 42 - An intelligence knowing, at a given instant of time, all forces acting in nature, as well as the momentary positions of all things of which the universe consists, would be able to comprehend the motions of the largest bodies of the world and those of the smallest atoms in one single formula, provided it were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it, nothing would be uncertain, both future and past would be present before its eyes.
Página xxii - Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125...
Página 232 - Is there any way of learning, before that date, something about gravitational radiation? The dynamics (and gravitational radiation) when two holes merge has so far been computed only for cases of special symmetry. The more general problem - coalescence of two Kerr holes with general orientations of their spin axes relative to the orbital angular momentum - is one of the US 'grand challenge
Página 232 - There would be a recoil due to the non-zero net linear momentum carried away by gravitational waves in the coalescence. If the holes have unequal masses, a preferred longitude in the orbital plane is determined by the orbital phase at which the final plunge occurs. For spinning holes there may be a rocket effect perpendicular to the orbital plane, since the spins break the mirror symmetry with respect to the orbital plane. The recoil is a strong-field gravitational effect which depends essentially...
Página 806 - ... domains creates huge homogeneous islands out of initial chaos. Each homogeneous domain in this scenario is much greater than the size of the observable part of the universe. The first models of chaotic inflation were based on the theories with polynomial potentials, such as V((j>) = i2^2 + \^- But the main idea of this scenario is quite generic.
Página 730 - Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 I.
Página 370 - Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Página 806 - Gradually, however, it became clear that the idea of chaotic initial conditions is most general, and it is much easier to construct a consistent cosmological theory without making unnecessary assumptions about thermal equilibrium and high temperature phase transitions in the early universe. Many other versions of inflationary cosmology have been proposed since 1983. Most of them are based not on the theory of high-temperature phase transitions, as in old and new inflation, but on the idea of chaotic...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking's Contributions to Physics |
| Autor | Stephen Hawking 60th Birthday Workshop and Symposium (2002, Cambridge, England) |
| Editores | G. W. Gibbons, Paul Shellard, E. P. S. Shellard, S. J. Rankin |
| Colaborador | StephenHawking |
| Edição | ilustrada, reimpressão |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521820812, 9780521820813 |
| Número de páginas | 879 páginas |
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