Hawking on the big bang and black holes / Stephen Hawking
Digitised Book 18.117.120.35 (0)
1993
Information About
general relativity and quantum mechanics. Although a completely unified theory remains elusive. Hawking has been able to make considerable progress both with black hole radiation and with the no-boundary proposal for the origin of the universe. This compilation of hiss most important works, complete with an introduction by him, is an mportant source of reference for theoretical physicists.
Additional Details
- Creators
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- Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
- Subject
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- Cosmology
- Big bang theory
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Publisher
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- World Scientific, 1993
- National Library Board Singapore, 1993
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, vi, 312 p. ill.
- Table of Contents
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- An Einstein Centenary Survey. ed. with W. Israel (1979) --.12. Wave Function of the Universe (with J. B. Hartle) (1983) -- 13. Quantum Cosmology From Relativity Groups and Topology^ Les Houches Lectures, eds. B. Dewitt and R. Stora (1984) -- 14. Origin of Structure in the Universe (with J. J. Halliwell) (1985) -- 15. Arrow of Time in Cosmology (1985) -- 16. The No-Boundary Proposal and the Arrow of Time From Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry^ eds. J. J. Halliwell, J. Perez-Mercader and W. H. Zurek (1992) -- 17. The Cosmological Constant is Probably Zero (1984) -- 18. Wormholes in Spacetime (1988) -- 19. Do Wormholes Fix the Constants of Nature? (1990) -- 20. Selection Rules for Topology Change (with G. Gibbons) (1992) -- 21. Chronology Protection Conjecture (1992).
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.