The Universe in a Nutshell
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| The Universe in a Nutshell | |
| Author | Stephen Hawking |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Theoretical Physics |
| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
| Publication date | 2001 |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-553-80202-X |
The Universe in a Nutshell is one of Stephen Hawking's books on theoretical physics. It explains to a general audience various matters relating to the Lucasian professor's work, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and P-branes (part of superstring theory in quantum mechanics).
The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002. It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public of developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time published in 1988.
[edit] Contents
- A Brief History of Relativity
- The Shape of Time
- The Universe in a Nutshell
- Predicting the Future
- Protecting the Past
- Our Future? Star Trek or Not?
- Brane New World
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