Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays  
Author(s) Stephen Hawking
Language English
Genre(s) Popular science
Publisher Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Publication date 1993
Media type Book
ISBN 0-553-37411-7
Preceded by A Brief History of Time
Followed by The Universe in a Nutshell

Black Holes and The Baby Universes and other Essays This book is mainly about the makeup of black holes and how they intertwine with "baby universes". Is a popular science book by British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. It is a collection of both introductory and technical lectures on the thermodynamics of black holes, but it also includes descriptions on Special Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. This collection of lectures also includes essays on Hawking's personal life when he was young and, most famously, his disease, motor neurone disease. The book also includes an interview of Stephen Hawking.

A recent edition is ISBN 0-553-37411-7.

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