The Theory of Everything
by Hawking, Stephen W.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-06-01
Publisher(s): New Millenium
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Summary
A series of lectures by the renowned physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores quantum mechanics and the time and space proposition.
Author Biography
Stephen Hawking holds Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Ideas About the Universe | p. 1 |
| The Expanding Universe | p. 17 |
| Black Holes | p. 43 |
| Black Holes Ain't So Black | p. 71 |
| The Origin and Fate of the Universe | p. 95 |
| The Direction of Time | p. 127 |
| The Theory of Everything | p. 145 |
| Index | p. 169 |
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