A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes /
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018.
A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes / Stephen W. Hawking - New York : Bantam Books, 1988. - x, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index. Digital copy is on the Internet Archive website.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Our picture of the universe -- Space and time -- expanding universe -- uncertainty principle -- Elementary particles and the forces of nature -- Black holes -- Black holes ain't so black -- origin and fate of the universe -- arrow of time -- unification of physics -- Conclusion -- Albert Einstein -- Galileo Galilei -- Isaac Newton -- Glossary -- Index. Carl Sagan -- by [ch.] 1. [ch.] 2. [ch.] 3. The [ch.] 4. The [ch.] 5. [ch.] 6. [ch.] 7. [ch.] 8. The [ch.] 9. The [ch.] 10. The [ch.] 11.
Provides an introduction to today's scientific ideas about the cosmos and reviews past theories. Also covers black holes, quarks, antimatter, and other mysteries of physics.
9780553175219 9780553053401
87033333
Cosmology.
QB981 / .H377 1988
523.1 / H393
A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes / Stephen W. Hawking - New York : Bantam Books, 1988. - x, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index. Digital copy is on the Internet Archive website.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Our picture of the universe -- Space and time -- expanding universe -- uncertainty principle -- Elementary particles and the forces of nature -- Black holes -- Black holes ain't so black -- origin and fate of the universe -- arrow of time -- unification of physics -- Conclusion -- Albert Einstein -- Galileo Galilei -- Isaac Newton -- Glossary -- Index. Carl Sagan -- by [ch.] 1. [ch.] 2. [ch.] 3. The [ch.] 4. The [ch.] 5. [ch.] 6. [ch.] 7. [ch.] 8. The [ch.] 9. The [ch.] 10. The [ch.] 11.
Provides an introduction to today's scientific ideas about the cosmos and reviews past theories. Also covers black holes, quarks, antimatter, and other mysteries of physics.
9780553175219 9780553053401
87033333
Cosmology.
QB981 / .H377 1988
523.1 / H393