title: The Nature of Space and Time
author:  Stephen Hawking 
description: Who doesn't love a good argument? When physics heavyweights Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose delivered three sets of back-and-forth lectures capped by a final debate at Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute, the course of modern cosmological thinking was at stake. As it happens, <i>The Nature of Space and Time</i>, which collects these remarks, suggests that little has changed from the days when Einstein challenged Bohr by refusing to believe that God plays dice. The math is more abstruse, the arguments more refined, but the argument still hinges on whether our physical theories should be expected to model reality or merely predict measurements.
zlib_text: The Nature of Space and Time
  
  THE ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE
  SERIES OF LECTURES
  
  The Nature of Space and Time
  With a new afterword by the authors
  Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  PRINCETON AND OXFORD
  
  Copyright © 1996 by Princeton University Press
  Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
  Princeton, New Jersey 08540
  In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street,
  Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW
  All Rights Reserved
  Thirteenth printing, with a new afterword by the authors, 2010
  Paperback ISBN 978-0-691-14570-9
  The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows
  Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
  The nature of space and time / Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.
  p.
  cm. -- (Isaac Newton Institute series of lectures)
  Includes bibliographic references (p.
  ).
  ISBN 0-691-03791-4 (cl : alk. paper)
  1. Space and time.
  2. Quantum theory.
  3. Astrophysics.
  4. Cosmology.
  I. Penrose, Roger.
  II. Title.
  III. Series.
  QCI73.