The Future of Spacetime

Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells...
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Author: Stephen W. Hawking
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Language: English
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The Future of Spacetime by Hawking, Stephen W.

The Future of Spacetime

CHF 28.05

The Future of Spacetime

CHF 28.05
Author: Stephen W. Hawking
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here are six accessible essays by those who walk that line, moving ever further out in discovering the patterns of nature, aimed at readers who share their fascination with the deepest mysteries of the universe.

- Richard Price: An Introduction to Spacetime Physics
- Stephen Hawking: Chronology Protection
- Igor Novikov: Can We Change the Past?
- Kip S. Thorne: Speculations about the Future
- Timothy Ferris: On the Popularization of Science
- Alan Lightman: The Physicist as Novelist



Author: Stephen W. Hawking, Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/17/2003
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.54w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780393324464

About the Author
Price, Richard: - Richard Price is a leading American physicist, known for his work in general relativity. He is currently a professor at University of Texas Brownsville.Hawking, Stephen W.: - 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.Thorne, Kip: - 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.
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