Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

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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 Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.

Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Thorne, Kip
  • ISBN: 9780393312768
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.26 x 1.17
  • Number Of Pages: 624
  • Publication Year: 1995

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  • Excellent account of general relativity

    DEV C. - 6 years 1 month ago

    I found it interesting, informative and true to the science, without undue simplification. Kip Thorne has been at the forefront of research in astrophysics. In this book he brings it to life by connecting Einstein's ideas to ordinary phenomen. I found his explanation of gravitational warping of space time and its connection to ocean tides particularly clarifying. Did not know that tides occur twice every day. I like the layout of the book with boxes explaining key concepts. He does cover a lot of material and the level does require some scientific background.