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Author Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018.

Title A brief history of time / Stephen Hawking.

Imprint New York : Bantam Books, 1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  523.1 H313b 1998    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Edition Updated and expanded tenth anniversary ed.
Description ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Contents Our picture of the universe -- Space and time -- The expanding universe -- The uncertainty principle -- Elementary particles and the forces of nature -- Black holes -- Black holes ain't so black -- The origin and fate of the universe -- The arrow of time -- Wormholes and time travel -- The unification of physics -- Conclusion.
Summary "In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen 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 observations, as well as his own recent research, Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the chapters throughout."--Jacket.
Subject Cosmology.
Cosmology. (OCoLC)fst00880600
ISBN 0553109537
9780553109535
0553380168
9780553380163
9781439503928
1439503923
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