The Universe in a Nutshell - the beautifully illustrated follow up to Professor Stephen Hawking's bestselling masterpiece A Brief History of Time

Mit seinem Bestseller "Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit" wurde Stephen Hawking 1988 weltberühmt und zum Inbegriff des genialen Wissenschaftlers. In seinem neusten Buch wendet er sich nun Fragen zu, die Ende der achtziger Jahre selbst den hellsten Köpfen der Kosmologie nicht in den Sinn gekommen wären. In der für ihn typischen witzigen und bilderreichen Sprache und mittels 250 anschaulicher, atemberaubend schöner Farbillustrationen führt Hawking den Laien in das surreale Wunderland der modernen Raumzeitforschung ein.

Kurzbeschreibung:

Stephen Hawking's first full length book since the worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time, lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout.

Klappentext:

Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here is his follow up to the phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time - illustrated to bring his theories to life in a clear, captivating and visually engaging way.

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Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon and continues to captivate and inspire new readers every year. When it was first publi shed in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening years there have been extraordinary advances in our understanding of the space and time. The technology for observing the micro- and macro-cosmic world has developed in leaps and bounds. During the same period cosmology and the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age and Professor Stephen Hawking has been at the heart of this new scientific renaissance.

Now, in The Universe in a Nutshell, beautifully illustrated with original artwork commissioned for this project, Stephen Hawking brings us fully up-to-date with the advances in scientific thinking.

We are now nearer than we have ever been to a full understanding of the universe. In a fascinating and accessible discussion that ranges from quantum mechanics to time travel, black holes to uncertainty theory and the search for science's Holy Grail - unified field theory (or in layman's t erms the 'theory of absolutely everything'), Professor Hawking once more takes us to the cutting edge of modern thinking.