A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen W. Hawking, Ron Miller, Carl Sagan055305340X, 9780553053401

Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we’re looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists’ search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can’t help but marvel at Hawking’s ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of “the mind of God.”

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Table of contents :
Local Disk……Page 0
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking……Page 1
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 1……Page 3
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 2……Page 10
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 3……Page 22
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 4……Page 31
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 5……Page 36
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 6……Page 44
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 7……Page 53
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 8……Page 61
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 9……Page 72
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 10……Page 77
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 11……Page 82
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Chapter 12……Page 93
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Glossary……Page 97
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking… Acknowledgments……Page 101