The Theory Of Everything : The Origin And Fate Of The Universe
(STEPHEN HAWKING)
The Theory Of Everything : The Origin And Fate Of The UniverseSTEPHEN 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), the nature of black holes, and space-time. Finally, he poses the questions left unanswered by modern physics, especially how to combine all the partial theories into a unified theory of everything. If we find the answer to that, he claims, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason.
A great popularizer of science as well as a brilliant scientist, Hawking believes that advances in theoretical science should be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. In this book, he offers a fascinating voyage of discovery about the cosmos and our place in it. It is a book for anyone who has ever gazed at the night sky and wondered what was up there and how it came to be.
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