Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein´s Outrageous Legacy
Kip Thorne
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Paperback. Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them. Series: Commonwealth Fund Book Program. Num Pages: 624 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PD. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 38. Weight in Grams: 780.
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 ... Read more
Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.
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Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
Commonwealth Fund Book Program
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393312768
SKU
V9780393312768
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About Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, is the author of the bestselling books Black Holes and Time Warps and The Science of Interstellar. Thorne was an executive producer for the 2014 film Interstellar. For “bridging the worlds of science and the humanities,” Thorne received Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for ... Read more
Reviews for Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein´s Outrageous Legacy
"Deeply satisfying.... [An] engrossing blend of theory, history, and anecdote."
Wall Street Journal "Among the best of [its] genre to appear in recent years."
Malcolm W. Browne - New York Times Book Review "Readers seeking to go beyond today's headlines will not find a higher authority (or a better storyteller) to discuss the cosmo's most bizarre features…Masterful and ... Read more
Wall Street Journal "Among the best of [its] genre to appear in recent years."
Malcolm W. Browne - New York Times Book Review "Readers seeking to go beyond today's headlines will not find a higher authority (or a better storyteller) to discuss the cosmo's most bizarre features…Masterful and ... Read more