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A discussion emerged about a book found in a Toronto bookstore, purportedly celebrating Stephen Hawking's birthday and featuring contributions from notable physicists like Wheeler, Thorne, and Penrose. The book in question is titled "The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology," edited by G. W. Gibbons, E. P. S. Shellard, and S. J. Rankin, published in November 2003. It has a hardback format with ISBN-10: 0521820812 and ISBN-13: 9780521820813, consisting of 906 pages. Participants noted that while the book contains intriguing technical articles, many are somewhat outdated, and some can be accessed for free on arxiv.org. The conversation included a link to a video related to the book's content, further emphasizing its academic significance.
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I came across a book at the "worlds greatest bookstore" in toronto...yes that's the name of the store...I believe it was for hawkings birthday...and had wheeler/thorpe/penrose as the chief editor...it was a collection of technical theoretical physics stuff presented at Hawking bday.(2-3 inches thick)

Has anyone come across this book? is it any good? can you give the title
and isbn?
 
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The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology
Celebrating Stephen Hawking's 60th Birthday
Edited by
G. W. Gibbons University of Cambridge
E. P. S. Shellard University of Cambridge
S. J. Rankin University of Cambridge

Hardback (ISBN-10: 0521820812 | ISBN-13: 9780521820813)
Published November 2003 | 906 pages | 247 x 174 mm

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521820812
(cheaper)

by the way, here's some video
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/stephen60/workshop.html
 
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yes ...any good? hmm guess wheeler/thorne wrote the beginnigng chapter.
 
neurocomp2003 said:
yes ...any good? hmm guess wheeler/thorne wrote the beginnigng chapter.

I looked over it a couple of times in a bookstore. Trying to see whether I should pay the hefty proice to buy it. I decided not, a bunch of fascinating short technical articles, but already somewhat out of date.
 
You can find some of the articles in arxiv.org, just write the titles in the search mask. Others can be found also writing hawking and birthday in the "abstract" field of the search mask.
 

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