Black Holes & Time Warps

Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Kip Thorne, Stephen W. Hawking

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WW Norton & Co
08 January 2010

Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues

Series: Commonwealth Fund Book Program

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.

By: Kip Thorne
Foreword by: Stephen W. Hawking
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 568g
ISBN: 9780393312768
ISBN 10: 0393312763
Series: Commonwealth Fund Book Program
Pages: 620
Publication Date: 08 January 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Black Holes & Time Warps reveals the scientific enterprise as very few books do; it richly overflows with history, modern physics, the excitement of discovery, and rare, firsthand scientific styles and temperaments. -- Alan Lightman Superb. It is what many other books about their subject ought to have been and were not.... I think the book itself will be a strong force. -- Carl Sagan Among the best of [its] genre to appear in recent years. -- Malcolm W. Browne - New York Times Book Review, front page review Deeply satisfying.... [An] engrossing blend of theory, history, and anecdote. -- Wall Street Journal