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A Brief History of Time (1988)

by Stephen Hawking

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Stephen W. Hawking, widely regarded as the most brilliant physicist since Einstein, discusses in a friendly and self-deprecating manner age-old questions about the origin and fate of the universe. Difficult concepts are made simple by Hawking's familiar, accessible prose.
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    Anonymous user: Although it's longer, Brian Greene's book is much more easily digestible. Plus, he gives you an idea of what they're hoping to discover at the Large Hadron Collider.
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  archivomorero | Jun 27, 2022 |
Wow. This book ends with little microbiographies of Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. That... was a treat.
  brutalstirfry | May 6, 2022 |
Afskaplega fróðleg bók og merkilega aðgengileg miðað við hver skrifar hana. Maður má þó hafa sig allan við að skilja það sem um er rætt en eftir stendur að viðhorfið gagnvart tíma og geimnum hefur tekið miklum stakkaskiptum. ( )
  SkuliSael | Apr 28, 2022 |
Hawking seems by turns repelled and reassured by tautologies, and accomplishes his explanations of the history of physics with more clarity than his elaboration of newer theories, but I still grasp these concepts better when they're explained by practitioners of the science than via layman interpretation. ( )
  slimikin | Mar 27, 2022 |
Not the best choice for an audiobook. It's very dense with a lot of information. I'll have to give it another try with an old-fashioned paper book. ( )
  NancyinA2 | Feb 3, 2022 |
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Through his cerebral journeys, Mr. Hawking is bravely taking some of the first, though tentative, steps toward quantizing the early universe, and he offers us a provocative glimpse of the work in progress.
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Hawking, Stephen—primary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jackson, MichaelNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jonkers, RonaldTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kober, HainerTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kreitmeyer, JensCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Miller, RonIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sagan, CarlIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schmidt, BerndConsultant (German Translation)secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Souriau, IsabelleTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Varteva, RistoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes
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Het heelal : verleden en toekomst van ruimte en tijd
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1988-03-07
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We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

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A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.

1. Our picture of the universe.
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Stephen W. Hawking, widely regarded as the most brilliant physicist since Einstein, discusses in a friendly and self-deprecating manner age-old questions about the origin and fate of the universe. Difficult concepts are made simple by Hawking's familiar, accessible prose.
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Che cosa sappiamo sull'universo, e come lo sappiamo? Da dove è venuto, e dove sta andando? L'universo ebbe un inizio e, in tal caso cosa c'era prima? Il tempo avrà mai una fine?" Con questi quesiti Stephen Hawking ci introduce in una straordinaria avventura: un'emozionante cavalcata nel tempo. L'espansione dell'universo, il principio di indeterminazione, le particelle elementari e le forze della natura, l'origine e la sorte dell'universo, l'unificazione della fisica sono le grandi tappe di questo viaggio indimenticabile. Ma oltre a riassumere le conoscenze tradizionali Hawking illustra le ultime teorie sulla fisica dei buchi neri, il principio antropico, la teoria dell'universo inflazionario, l'universo contenuto in una bolla.
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