A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black HolesBantam Books, 1988 - 198 páginas "Stephen W. Hawking has achieved international prominence as one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, he has written a popular work exploring the outer limits of our knowledge of astrophysics and the nature of time and the universe. The result is a truly enlightening book: a classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos, and a unique opportunity to experience the intellect of one of the most imaginative, influential thinkers of our age. From the vantage point of the wheelchair where he has spent the last twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Professor Hawking himself has transformed our view of the universe. His groundbreaking research into black holes offers clues to that elusive moment when the universe was born. Now, in the incisive style which is his trademark, Professor Hawking shows us how mankind's "world picture evolved from the time of Aristotle through the 1915 breakthrough of Albert Einstein, to the exciting ideas of today's prominent young physicists. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite? Or does it have boundaries? With these fundamental questions in mind, Hawking reviews the great theories of the cosmos - and all the puzzles, paradoxes and contradictions still unresolved. With great care he explains Galileo's and Newton's discoveries. Next he takes us step-by-step through Einstein's general theory of relativity (which concerns the extraordinarily vast) and then moves on to the other great theory of our century, quantum mechanics (which concerns the extraordinarily tiny). And last, he explores the worldwide effort to combine the two into a single quantum theory of gravity, the unified theory, which should resolve all the mysteries left unsolved - and he tells why he believes that momentous discovery is not far off. Professor Hawking also travels into the exotic realms of deep space, distant galaxies, black holes, quarks, GUTs, particles with "flavors" and "spin," antimatter, the "arrows of time" - and intrigues us with their unexpected implications. He reveals the unsettling possibilities of time running backward when an expanding universe collapses, a universe with as many as eleven dimensions, a theory of a "no boundary" universe that may replace the big bang theory and a God who may be increasingly fenced in by new discoveries - who may be the prime mover in the creation of it all. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary contributor to the ideas of humankind, this is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge, the ongoing search for the secrets at the heart of time and space." -- |
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... particle duality discussed in the last chapter , everything in the universe , including light and gravity , can be described in terms of particles . These particles have a property called spin . One way of thinking of spin is to imagine the ...
... particle duality discussed in the last chapter , everything in the universe , including light and gravity , can be described in terms of particles . These particles have a property called spin . One way of thinking of spin is to imagine the ...
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... SPIN = 0 V ( ii ) SPIN = 1 FIGURE 5.1 ( iii ) SPIN = 2 tion ( 180 degrees ) . Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . All this seems fairly straightforward ...
... SPIN = 0 V ( ii ) SPIN = 1 FIGURE 5.1 ( iii ) SPIN = 2 tion ( 180 degrees ) . Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . All this seems fairly straightforward ...
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... spin - 2 particle called the graviton , which carries the gravitational force , with certain other new particles of spin 3/2 , 1 , 1/2 , and 0. In a sense , all these particles could then be regarded as different aspects of the same ...
... spin - 2 particle called the graviton , which carries the gravitational force , with certain other new particles of spin 3/2 , 1 , 1/2 , and 0. In a sense , all these particles could then be regarded as different aspects of the same ...
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Our Picture of the Universe | 3 |
Space and Time | 15 |
The Expanding Universe | 35 |
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