| The Universe in a Nutshell | |
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First edition cover |
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| Author(s) | Stephen Hawking |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Theoretical Physics |
| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
| Publication date | 2001 |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-553-80202-X |
| OCLC Number | 46959876 |
| Dewey Decimal | 530.12 21 |
| LC Classification | QC174.12 .H39 2001 |
The Universe in a Nutshell is one of Stephen Hawking's 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). It tells the history and principles of modern physics. He brings us behind the scenes of the most intellecutal tales as he seeks to "combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into one complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe."[1]
The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002. It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public of developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time published in 1988.