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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A shorter, more accessible edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features new full-color illustrations and an expanded, easier to understand treatment of the volume's more important theoretical concepts.
Author
Publisher
New Millennium Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by illustrations, a series of lectures by the renowned physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores quantum mechanics and the time and space proposition.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds.
