''The Nature of Space and Time'' is a book that documents a debate on physics and the philosophy of physics between the British

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experime ...

s Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking. The book was published by

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in 1996. The event that is featured in the book took place in 1994 at the

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. The debate was modeled on the series of debates between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nature of Space and Time 1996 non-fiction books Books by Stephen Hawking Princeton University Press books Works by Roger Penrose