A Brief History of Time

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A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?

Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.

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... measure distances pre- cisely , because we can measure time more accurately than length . In effect , the meter is defined to be the distance traveled by light in 0.000000003335640952 second , as measured by a cesium clock . ( The ...
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... measuring their apparent brightness . Hubble noted that certain types of stars always have the same luminosity when they are near enough for us to measure ; therefore , he argued , if we found such stars in another galaxy , we could ...
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... measure the position of the particle , the less accurately you can measure its speed , and vice versa . Heisenberg showed that the uncer- tainty in the position of the particle times the uncertainty in its velocity times the mass of the ...

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Chapter One Our Picture of the Universe
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GALILEO GALILEI
194
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
205
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anthropic principle antiparticles antiquarks astronaut atoms big bang body boundary condition called chapter collide complete unified theory described dimensions direction disorder distance early universe earth effect Einstein electromagnetic electrons emitted entropy event horizon exclusion principle exist finite force-carrying particles Friedmann galaxies Galileo gamma rays gravitational attraction gravitational field gravitational force happens idea imaginary increase infinite initial large number laws of science light cone light rays mass matter particles measure microwave million million million moving neutron star Newton nucleus observe orbits partial theories paths physicist planets position possible predicted primordial black holes protons and neutrons quantum mechanics quantum theory quarks radiation recollapse regions rotating scientist space space-time spaceship speed of light string theory sum over histories surface symmetry temperature theory of gravity theory of relativity thermodynamic arrow thousand million uncertainty principle universe expands velocity virtual particles wavelength wormhole zero

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Stephen Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His books for the general reader include My Brief History, the classic A Brief History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, and, with Leonard Mlodinow, A Briefer History of Time and The Grand Design. Stephen Hawking died in 2018.

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TítuloA Brief History of Time
AutorStephen Hawking
Ediciónreimpresa
EditorRandom House Publishing Group, 1998
ISBN0553380168, 9780553380163
Largo240 páginas
  
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