The Universe in a Nutshell

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Title The Universe in a Nutshell
Author Stephen Hawking
Subject(s) Theoretical Physics
Publisher Bantam Spectra
Released 2001
Pages 224
ISBN ISBN 0-553-80202-X

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).

The Universe In A Nutshell is winner of The Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002. The book is a sequel and has been created to update the public of developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time published in 1988.

[edit] 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

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