Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Thorne, Kip
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Thorne, Kip

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which...
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Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Thorne, Kip

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

$223.42
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Thorne, Kip

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

$223.42
Author: Kip Thorne
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.

Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.

Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.



Author: Kip Thorne
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/1995
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.18w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780393312768


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/24/1995 pg. 40

About the Author
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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