Title:
A brief history of time / Stephen Hawking.
ISBN:
9780553109535
9780553380163
Personal Author:
Edition:
2017 Bantam Books trade paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Bantam Books, 2017.
Physical Description:
ix, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
"Includes new material" -- cover.
Contents:
Foreword -- Foreword to the 2017 edition -- 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 -- Albert Einstein -- Galileo Galilei -- Isaac Newton -- Appendix.
Summary:
Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. 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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.5 13 157417.
Reading Counts RC High School 12 18 Quiz: 14295 Guided reading level: NR.
Audience:
1290L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1005987912
Availability:
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