The Future of Spacetime - Softcover

Thorne, Kip S.; Novikov, Igor; Ferris, Timothy; Lightman, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393020223 ISBN 13: 9780393020229

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

A group of leading physicists--Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman--paints a vivid portrait of the possible future of black holes, gravity holes, and time travel in six readible essays that explore the deepest mysteries of the universe.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Timothy Ferris is a science writer and has held professorships at four universities, teaching subjects as diverse as astronomy, philosophy, English, journalism, and history. He is currently an emeritus professor at UC Berkeley.

Alan Lightman is a physicist and writer. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities.

Igor Novikov is a theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and is a professor of astrophysics at the Observatory of the University of Copenhagen.

Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, is the author of the bestselling books Black Holes and Time Warps and The Science of Interstellar. Thorne was an executive producer for the 2014 film Interstellar. For “bridging the worlds of science and the humanities,” Thorne received Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393020223
• ISBN 13: 9780393020229
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
• Herausgeber: Hawking Stephen W.
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