Title:
The universe in a nutshell / Stephen Hawking.
Main Entry:
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018. author.
Publisher:
Bantam Books,
Publication Date:
2001.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
055380202X
9780553802023
0593048156
9780593048153
9780965326940
0965326942
Subject:
Quantum theory.
Theorie quantique.
Kosmologie.
Popular works.
Fiction.
Contents:
A brief history of relativity. How Einstein laid the foundations of the two fundamental theories of the twentieth-century : general relativity and quantum theory -- The shape of time. Einstein's general relativity gives time a shape : how this can be reconciled with quantum theory -- The universe in a nutshell. The universe has multiple histories, each of which is determined by a tiny nut -- Predicting the future. How the loss of information in black holes may reduce our ability to predict the future -- Protecting the past. Is time travel possible? Could an advanced civilization go back and change the past? -- Our future? Star Trek or not?. How biological and electronic life will go on developing in complexity at an ever increasing rate -- Brane new world. Do we live on a brane or are we just holograms?
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