A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME - FROM BIG BANG TO BLACK HOLES
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries?
These are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist - generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and strong theory. To this day A Brief History of Time remains a staple of the scientific canon, and its succinct and clear language continues to introduce millions to the universe and its wonders.
This new edition includes recent updates from Stephen Hawking with his latest thoughts about the No Boundary Proposal and offers new information about dark energy, the information paradox, eternal inflation, the microwave background radiation observations, and the discovery of gravitational waves.
STEPHEN HAWKING
STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March, 2018.
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HAWKING STEPHEN
Oxford, Reino Unido, 8 de enero de 1942 - Cambridge, Reino Unido, 14 de marzo de 2018 . Es un físico, cosmólogo y divulgador científico británico. Sus trabajos más importantes hasta la fecha han consistido en aportar, junto con Roger Penrose, teoremas respecto a las singularidades espaciotemporales en el marco de la relatividad general, y la predicción teórica de que los agujeros negros emitirían radiación, lo que se conoce hoy en día como radiación de Hawking o a veces radiación Bekenstein-Hawking .
Es miembro de la Real Sociedad de Londres, de la Academia Pontificia de las Ciencias y de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos. Fue titular de la Cátedra Lucasiana de Matemáticas Lucasian Chair of Mathematics de la Universidad de Cambridge hasta su jubilación en 2009.
