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Year: 2,003
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Toc: 1 Introduction (Gary Gibbons and Paul Shellard) Part 1 Popular symposium 2 Our complex cosmos and its future (Martin Rees) 3 Theories of everything and Hawking's wave function of the universe (James Hartle) 4 The problem of spacetime singularities: implications for quantum gravity? (Roger Penrose) 5 Warping spacetime (Kip Thorne) 6 Sixty years in a nutshell (Stephen Hawking) Part 2 Spacetime singularities 7 Cosmological perturbations and singularities (George Ellis) 8 The quantum physics of chronology protection (Matt Visser) 9 Energy dominance and the Hawking—Ellis vacuum conservation theorem (Brandon Carter) 10 On the instability of extra space dimensions (Roger Penrose) Part 3 Black holes 11 Black hole uniqueness and the inner horizon stability problem (Werner Israel) 12 Black holes in the real universe and their prospects as probes of relativistic gravity (Martin Rees) 13 Primordial black holes (Bernard Carr) 14 Black hole pair conservation (Simon Ross) 15 Black holes at accelerators (Steve Giddings) Part 4 Hawking radiation 16 Black holes and string theory (Malcolm Perry) 17 M theory and black hole quantum mechanics (Joe Polchinski) 18 Playing with black strings (Gary Horowitz) 19 Twenty years of debate with Stephen (Leonard Susskind) Part 5 Quantum gravity 20 Euclidean quantum gravity: the view from 2002 (Gary Gibbons) 21 Zeta functions, anomalies and stable branes (Ian Moss) 22 Some reflections on the status of conventional quantum theory when applied to quantum gravity (Chris Isham) 23 Quantum geometry and its ramifications (Abhay Ashtekar) 24 Topology change in quantum gravity (Fay Dowker) Part 6 M theory and beyond 25 The past and future of string theory (Edward Witten) 26 String theory (David Gross) 27 A brief description of string theory (Michael Green) 28 The story of M (Paul Townsend) 29 Gauged supergravity and holographic field