The Universe in a Nutshell
- The Universe in a Nutshell
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author = Stephen Hawking
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language = English
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subject = Theoretical Physics
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publisher = Bantam Spectra
release_date = 2001
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pages = 224
isbn = ISBN 0-553-80202-X
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"The Universe in a Nutshell" is one of Stephen Hawking's latest 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. The book reached major popularity in the market. It is generally considered a sequel and has been created to update the public of developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller "A Brief History of Time" published in 1988.
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
See also
* Roger Penrose
* Kip Thorne
* Physical cosmology
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