Hawking on the big bang and black holes /
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| Author / Creator: | Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018. |
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| Imprint: | Singapore ; New Jersey : World Scientific, c1993. |
| Description: | vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advanced series in astrophysics and cosmology ; vol. 8 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2918943 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Singularities of Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology / Stephen W. Hawking and R. Penrose
- 2. The Event Horizon
- 3. The Four Laws of Black Hole Mechanics / Stephen W. Hawking, J. M. Bardeen and B. Carter
- 4. Particle Creation by Black Holes
- 5. Action Integrals and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity / Stephen W. Hawking and G. Gibbons
- 6. Breakdown of Predictability in Gravitational Collapse
- 7. Evaporation of Two-Dimensional Black Holes
- 8. Cosmological Event Horizons, Thermodynamics, and Particle Creation / Stephen W. Hawking and G. Gibbons
- 9. The Development of Irregularities in a Single Bubble Inflationary Universe
- 10. Zeta Function Regularization of Path Integrals in Curved Spacetime
- 11. The Path-Integral Approach to Quantum Gravity
- 12. Wave Function of the Universe / Stephen W. Hawking and J. B. Hartle
- 13. Quantum Cosmology
- 14. Origin of Structure in the Universe / Stephen W. Hawking and J. J. Halliwell
- 15. Arrow of Time in Cosmology
- 16. The No-Boundary Proposal and the Arrow of Time
- 17. The Cosmological Constant is Probably Zero
- 18. Wormholes in Spacetime
- 19. Do Wormholes Fix the Constants of Nature?
- 20. Selection Rules for Topology Change / Stephen W. Hawking and G. Gibbons
- 21. Chronology Protection Conjecture.
