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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne (Paperback, 1995)
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Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.
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Which of these bizarre phemena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which thing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time. Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they kw the things they think they kw? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.Product Identifiers
PublisherWw Norton & Co
ISBN-100393312763
ISBN-139780393312768
eBay Product ID (ePID)114480618
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlack Holes and Time Warps : Einsteins Outrageous Legacy
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
GenreScience
TypeTextbook
AuthorKip S. Thorne
Book SeriesCommonwealth Fund Book Program Ser.
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
Height234mm
Width155mm
Weight760g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication02/05/1995
SubjectScience: General & Référence
Intended AudienceTrade
Place of PublicationNew York
Spine30mm
Foreword byStephen W. Hawking
Series TitleCommonwealth Fund Book Program
PrizesWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize 1994.
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author BiographyKip Thorne is the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, an executive producer for Interstellar, and the author of books including the bestselling Black Holes and Time Warps. He lives in Pasadena, California. Stephen W. Hawking is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
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