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The illustrated a brief history of time / Stephen Hawking

Author
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
Published
New York [u.a.] : Bantam Books, 1996.
Edition
Updated and expanded ed.
Physical Description
248 S. : zahlr. illustrations

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Our Picture of the Universe -- Ch. 2 Space and Time -- Ch. 3 The Expanding Universe -- Ch. 4 The Uncertainty Principle -- Ch. 5 Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature -- Ch. 6 Black Holes -- Ch. 7 Black Holes Ain't So Black -- Ch. 8 The Origin and Fate of the Universe -- Ch. 9 The Arrow of Time -- Ch. 10 Wormholes and Time Travel -- Ch. 11 The Unification of Physics -- Ch. 12 Conclusion -- Albert Einstein -- Galileo Galilei -- Isaac Newton.
Summary
"In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing. It has become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies. The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since that time there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected." "Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his most recent research, for this expanded edition Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on the fascinating subject of wormholes and time travel, and updated the original chapters." "In addition, to heighten understanding of complex concepts that readers may have found difficult to grasp despite the clarity and wit of Professor Hawking's writing, this edition is enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular technological advances such as the Hubble Space Telescope, and computer-generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. Detailed captions clarify these illustrations, enabling readers to experience the vastness of intergalactic space, the nature of black holes, and the microcosmic world of particle physics in which matter and antimatter collide." --Book Jacket.
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ISBN
0553103741
9780553103748
Note
Originally published: A brief history of time. New York : Bantam Books, 1988.
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