The Universe in a Nutshell

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The Universe in a Nutshell is one of Stephen Hawking's latest books on theoretical physics, it explains to a general audience various matters relating to the Lucasian professor's work, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and P-branes (part of superstring theory in quantum mechanics).

Contents

  • 1. A Brief History of Relativity
  • 2. The Shape of Time
  • 3. The Universe in a Nutshell
  • 4. Predicting the Future
  • 5. Protecting the Past
  • 6. Our Future? Star Trek or Not?
  • 7. Brane New World

Published in 2001 by Bantam Spectra. ISBN 055380202X.

See also

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