The Nature of Space and Time

Abstract

Three illustrated lectures given by Stephen Hawking as part of a series of six lectures with Roger Penrose on the nature of space and time sponsored by Princeton University Press.

62 pages with 51 figures, plain TeX

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• Black hole evaporation: A paradigm
• A Scheme to Probe the Decoherence of a Macroscopic Object
• The Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole: How good a case is it? A Challenge for Astrophysics & Philosophy of Science
• Quantum Gravity: General Introduction and Recent Developments
• Bardeen Regular Black Hole With an Electric Source
• Structural Issues in Quantum Gravity
• Conceptual Problems in Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology
• Quantum mechanics: Myths and facts
• Inflation without a beginning: a null boundary proposal
• Simple Analytic Models of Gravitational Collapse
• Nature of singularities in gravitational collapse
• Regular black holes in $f(G)$ gravity
• Quantum gravitational collapse: non-singularity and non-locality
• On Singular Semi-Riemannian Manifolds
• Quantum evolution of black hole initial data sets: Foundations
• Cosmological perturbations and stability of nonsingular cosmologies with limiting curvature
• Formation and life-time of memory domains in the dissipative quantum model of brain
• Phantom singularities and their quantum fate: general relativity and beyond
• Curvature Invariants and Lower Dimensional Black Hole Horizons
• The quantum realm of the "Little Sibling" of the Big Rip singularity
• Tunelling with a Negative Cosmological Constant
• Can quantum mechanics be an emergent phenomenon?
• Determinism and general relativity
• Astrophysical Black Hole horizons in a cosmological context: Nature and possible consequences on Hawking Radiation
• Vacuum structure for expanding geometry
• Beyond the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker Big Bang singularity
• Gauge Theory Description of D-brane Black Holes: Emergence of the Effective SCFT and Hawking Radiation
• Time Machines Constructed from Anti-de Sitter Space
• Polymer representation of the Bianchi IX Cosmology in the Misner variables
• Closed Timelike Curves, Singularities and Causality: A Survey from Gödel to Chronological Protection
• On the dynamics of the general Bianchi IX spacetime near the singularity
• The Nature of Singularity in Bianchi I Cosmological String Gravity Model with Second Order Curvature Corrections
• Homogeneous Gödel-type solutions in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
• The Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker Big Bang singularities are well behaved
• The transaction as a quantum concept
• Massless Charged Particles, Naked Singularity, and Generalized Uncertainty Principle in Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter-like spacetime
• An Efficient Representation of Euclidean Gravity I
• Fantappie's group as an extension of special relativity on Cantorian space-time
• Geometrothermodynamic Analysis and $P$-$V$ criticality of Higher Dimensional Charged Gauss-Bonnet Black Holes With First Order Entropy Correction
• Smooth Singularities Exposed: Chimeras of the Differential Spacetime Manifold
• Symmetric and antisymmetric forms of the Pauli master equation (for interaction of matter and antimatter quantum states)
• Gravastar under the framework of braneworld gravity II: effect of the Kuchowicz metric function
• Black-Hole Uncertainty Entails an Intrinsic Time Arrow. a Note on the Hawking-Penrose Controversy
• The Geometry of Black Hole singularities
• Time before Time - Classifications of universes in contemporary cosmology, and how to avoid the antinomy of the beginning and eternity of the world
• Creation of entangled universes avoids the big bang singularity
• The Early Universe as a Quantum Growing Network
• Traversing Cosmological Singularities, Complete Journeys Through Spacetime Including Antigravity
• Quantropy
• Singular General Relativity
• Quantum creation and inflationary universes: a critical appraisal
• Instability of enclosed horizons
• A primordial theory
• Semi-classical Universe Near Initial Singularity
• Choosing the Right Relativity for QFT
• The model of a flat (Euclidean) expansive homogeneous and isotropic relativistic universe in the light of the general relativity, quantum mechanics, and observations
• A dialog on the fate of information in black hole evaporation
• Topics in Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space
• Are Causality Violations Undesirable?
• Ab initio derivation of the quantum Dirac equation by conformal differential geometry: the "Affine Quantum Mechanics'"
• Space-time foam dense singularities and de Rham cohomology
• Curvature invariants for the Bianchi IX spacetime filled with tilted dust
• Conceptual Problems in Cosmology
• Simulating space and time
• On the Philosophical Foundations of Physics: An Experimentalist's Perspective
• Quantum Weak Measurements and Cosmology
• Quantum potential in dust collapse with a negative cosmological constant
• Does Indeterminism Give Rise to an Intrinsic Time Arrow?
• Probability, unitarity, and realism in generally covariant quantum information
• Holographic Weyl Entropy Bounds
• Indeterminism and Time Symmetry are Incompatible: Reply to Rebilas
• Remarks on Papapetrou Class of Vacuum Solutions of Einstein Equations
• Geometries with integrable singularity -- black/white holes and astrogenic universes
• On Some Applications of the Sagnac Effect
• Classical and quantum quintessence cosmology
• Quantum Indeterminism and First Passage Random Walks in Hilbert Space
• Black holes reconsidered
• A Superdimensional Dual-covariant Field Theory
• The Problem of Quantum Measurement and Entangled States: Interactions Among States and Formation of Detector Images
• Ever-expanding, Isotropizing, Quadratic Cosmologies
• Bell's Inequality, Quantum Measurement and Einstein Realism: A Unified Perspective
• On the Possible Experimental Detection of Non-Causal Synordination Patterns of Physical Events
• Science, Technology and Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
• Black Hole Evaporation Entails an Objective Passage of Time
• Space, Time, Matter in Quantum Gravity
• Model of Expansive Nondecelerativa Universe and unified approach to fundamental physical interactions
• A Bianchi Type IV Viscous Fluid Model of The Early Universe
• The quantum pigeonhole effect as a new form of Bell's theorem without inequality
• Reduced Quantum General Relativity in Higher Dimensions
• Universe on Extremely Small Spacetime Scales: Quantum Geometrodynamical Approach
• The time at the subplanckian scale
• Superconducting Cosmic Strings that Connected a Charged Black Hole and Considered as Hair of Black Hole
• Serial Acceleration-Deceleration Transitions in a Cyclic Universe with Negative Curvature
• On some methods of construction of invariant normalizations of lightlike hypersurfaces
• Ricci Flow and Entropy Model for Avascular Tumor Growth and Decay Control
• Finitary-Algebraic `Resolution' of the Inner Schwarzschild Singularity
• Beyond Quantum Computation and Towards Quantum Field Computation
• Ricci Flow and Nonlinear Reaction--Diffusion Systems in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics
• CPT and Superstring
• Two thermodynamic particularities of the dynamic glass transition in liquids: Glarum-Levy defects and Fischer speckles - cosmological consequences
• Euclidean 5-sphere archaic universe
• Analysis of efficiency limiting processes in thin film Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 electrodeposited solar cells
• Mathematical matrix theory of the field in n-dimensional metric space: rigorous derivation of the equations of the field with application in electromagnetic-gravitational fields
• Entropy Bound for the Crystalline Vacuum Cosmic Space Model
• Scalar field collapse with negative cosmological constant
• Astrophysical and cosmological doomsdays
• Predicting the Path of an Open System