The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe - Softcover

Hawking, Stephen W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553941950 ISBN 13: 9781553941958

Verlag: Educa Books, 2008

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Book Dimensions: 8.24x5x0.5 inches, weight - 0.5 Lbs.Details - Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the world s greatest minds: a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped to reconfigure models of the universe and to redefine what s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context. It would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World.Hawking presents a series of seven lec-tures covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theory that capture not only the brilliance of Hawking s mind but his characteristic wit as well. Of his research on black holes, which absorbed him for more than a decade, he says, It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar. Hawking begins with a history of ideas about the universe, from Aristotle s determination that the Earth is round to Hubble s discovery, over 2000 years later, that the universe is expanding. Using that as a launching pad, he explores the reaches of modern physics, including theories on the origin of the universe (e.g., the big bang).........

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Stephen Hawking: An English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, author as well as the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology under the University of Cambridge, Stephen Hawking is a scholar with more than a dozen of honorary degrees. In was in 1963 that Stephen Hawking contracted a rare motor neuron disorder which gave him just two years to live, yet he went to Cambridge to become what he is today.

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• Verlag: Educa Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1553941950
• ISBN 13: 9781553941958
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132
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