Name: Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein' S Outrageous Legacy: 0 (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
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Author: Stephen Hawking
ISBN: 9780393312768

portada Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein' S Outrageous Legacy: 0 (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kip Thorne

Preface by

Stephen Hawking

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.5 x 15.7 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.79 kg.

ISBN

0393312763

ISBN13

9780393312768

Synopsis "Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein' S Outrageous Legacy: 0 (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)"

Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

Stephen Hawking

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Ocupó, hasta 2009, la cátedra Lucasiana de Matemáticas que en otro tiempo tuvo Newton en la Universidad de Cambridge, y fue condecorado con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia en 1989. Reconocido universalmente como uno de los más grandes físicos teóricos del mundo, el profesor Hawking ha escrito, pese a sus enormes limitaciones físicas, docenas de artículos que significan en conjunto una aportación a la ciencia que aún no somos capaces de evaluar adecuadamente. A su primera obra de divulgación, Historia del tiempo. Del big bang a los agujeros negros (Crítica, 1988) y El universo en una cáscara de nuez (Crítica, 2002), se le suman Brevísima historia del tiempo —escrita con Leonard Mlodinow— y las antologías A hombros de gigantes. Las grandes obras de la Física y la Astronomía (Crítica 2003), la edición ilustrada de esta última obra (Crítica 2004), Dios creó los números. Los descubrimientos matemáticos que cambiaron la Historia (Crítica 2006) y La gran ilusión. Las grandes obras de Albert Einstein (Crítica, 2008).

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David ChoqueMonday, July 06, 2015
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Hermoso libro !!!!
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William ChaconThursday, September 10, 2020
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Simplemente genial!! Thorne en un lenguaje fácil, expone cómo se.llego a concluir la existencia de agujeros negros.
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