Stephen Hawking
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions--Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?--and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Lou Gherig's disease was all the motivation Stephen Hawking needed to stop slacking off and start exploring the world and the universe with whatever time he had left. Expanded from a lecture, this account reveals Hawking's journey from an undistinguished son to a revolutionary cosmologist.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for readers who have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts—the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe—A