A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes /

A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018, author.
Edition:	Bantam Trade Paper edition.
Imprint:	New York : Bantam Books, 1990. ©1988
Description:	x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Space and time. Cosmology. Cosmology. Space and time.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13205548

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Other authors / contributors:	Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996, author of introduction. Miller, Ron, illustrator. Internet Archive (Firm)
ISBN:	0553346148 9780553346145
Notes:	Includes index. Also available free as an electronic resource on the Internet Archive. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	"Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space."--Book cover.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 - Our Picture of the Universe
- Chapter 2 - Space and Time
- Chapter 3 - The Expanding Universe
- Chapter 4 - The Uncertainty Principle
- Chapter 5 - Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature
- Chapter 6 - Black Holes
- Chapter 7 - Black Holes Ain't So Black
- Chapter 8 - The Origin and Fate of the Universe
- Chapter 9 - The Arrow of Time
- Chapter 10 - Wormholes and Time Travel
- Chapter 11 - The Unification of Physics
- Chapter 12 - Conclusion.