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The Grand Design. Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Stephen Hawking
Synopsis "The Grand Design. Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow"
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent ‘grand design’ of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. The Grand Design explains the latest thoughts about model-dependent realism (the idea that there is no one version of reality), and about the multiverse concept of reality in which there are many universes. There are new ideas about the top-down theory of cosmology (the idea that there is no one history of the universe, but that every possible history exists). It concludes with a riveting assessment of m-theory, and discusses whether it is the unified theory Einstein spent a lifetime searching for. This is the first major work in nearly a decade by one of the world’s greatest thinkers. A succinct, startling and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform - and provoke - like no other.
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).
