Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy: 0 - Brossura

Thorne, Kip S.

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ISBN 10: 0393312763 ISBN 13: 9780393312768

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995

Riassunto

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, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics 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.

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Recensione:

"Among the best of [its] genre to appear in recent years." --The New York Times Book Review

"Superb. It is what many other books about their subject ought to have been and were not.... I think the book itself will be a strong force." --Carl Sagan

"Deeply satisfying.... [An] engrossing blend of theory, history, and anecdote." --Wall Street Journal

L'autore:

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. He lives in Pasadena, California.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0393312763
• ISBN 13: 9780393312768
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 624