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

Author: Stephen Hawking
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Publish Date: 2001-03-21
Features: Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, since its first edition in 1988, has become a landmark of scientific literature, with nearly 10 million copies sold worldwide. The content of the first edition introduced cutting-edge knowledge about the nature of the universe. Advances in observational techniques in the fields of the microscopic and macroscopic world over the past decade have proven many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions. To introduce readers to new observational knowledge, he has rewritten the preface, comprehensively updated the original content, and added a new chapter on the exciting topics of wormholes and time travel. The book explores the external limitations of our understanding of astrophysics and the nature of spacetime, and it is thought-provoking: its brilliant preface introduces some of the most important scientific ideas about the universe today, and reading it allows one to appreciate the wisdom of a truly imaginative and influential thinker of our time.