The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology

Celebrating Stephen Hawking's Contributions to Physics

By: G.W. Gibbons (Editor), E.P.S. Shellard (Editor), S.J. Rankin (Editor)

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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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'The collection of authors is uniformly impressive ... well-written and pedagogical ... this volume provides a rewarding experience for researchers interested in gravity, cosmology, and fundamental physics.' Sean M. Carroll, American Journal of Physics 'As the contributions show, the 21st century promises to become again an exciting time for gravitational physics ... will find its prominent place on my shelf.' Claus Kiefer, General Relativity and Gravitation '... even those with only a 'popular science' interest in recent developments in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology will find much to interest them.' David Park, SIAM News '... a fascinating book, aimed at those physicists and mathematicians who have an interest in cosmology.' Mathematics Today "The pictorial presentation ... instantly captures the reader's attention. ... an eminently readable record of a well-timed chorus of friends for someone like Hawking sitting on a perch aloft who hit his 60th birthday and travelled against time and tide.' Contemporary Physics

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Preface
List of contributors
Introduction
Popular Symposium
Our complex cosmos and its future
Theories of everything and Hawking's wave function of the Universe
The problem of space-time singularities: implications for quantum gravity?
Warping spacetime
60 years in a nutshell
Spacetime Singularities
Cosmological perturbations and singularities
The quantum physics of chronology protection
Energy dominance and the Hawking-Ellis vacuum conservation theorem
On the instability of extra space dimensions
Black Holes
Black hole uniqueness and the inner horizon stability problem
Black holes in the real universe and their prospects as probes of relativistic gravity
Primordial black holes
Black hole pair creation
Black holes at accelerators Steven Giddings
Hawking Radiation
Black holes and string theory
M theory and black hole quantum mechanics
Playing with black strings
Twenty years of debate with
Quantum Gravity
Euclidean quantum gravity: the view from 2002
Zeta functions, anomalies and stable branes
Some reflections on the status of conventional quantum theory when applied to quantum gravity
Quantum geometry and its ramifications
Topology change in quantum gravity
M Theory and Beyond
The past and future of string theory
String theory
A brief description of string theory
The story of
Gauged supergravity and holographic field theory
57 varieties in a Nutshell
de Sitter Space
Adventures in de Sitter space
de Sitter space in non-critical string theory
Supergravity, M theory and cosmology
Quantum Cosmology
The state of the universe
Quantum cosmology Don Page
Quantum cosmology and eternal inflation
Probability in the deterministic theory known as quantum mechanics
The interpretation of quantum cosmology and the problem of time
What local supersymmetry can do for quantum cosmology
Cosmology
Inflation and cosmological perturbations
The future of cosmology: observational and computational prospects
The ekpyrotic universe and its cyclic extension
Inflationary theory versus the ekpyrotic/cyclic scenario
Brane (new) worlds
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