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A brief history of time

Stephen Hawking (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2017
2017 Bantam books Trade paperback edition View all formats and editions
Bantam Books, New York, 2017
History
ix, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780553109535, 9780553380163, 9780553173253, 0553109537, 0553380168, 0553173251
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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
"Includes new material"--Cover
Includes index