A group of leading physicists--Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman--paints a vivid portrait of the possible future of black holes, gravity holes, and time travel in six readable essays that explore the deepest mysteries of the universe. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Presents essays that explore the deepest mysteries of the universe, including black holes, gravity holes, and time travel, by physicists Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman.
Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here are six accessible essays by those who walk that line, moving ever further out in discovering the patterns of nature, aimed at readers who share their fascination with the deepest mysteries of the universe.
. Richard Price: "An Introduction to Spacetime Physics"
. Stephen Hawking: "Chronology Protection"
. Igor Novikov: "Can We Change the Past?"
. Kip S. Thorne: "Speculations about the Future"
. Timothy Ferris: "On the Popularization of Science"
. Alan Lightman: "The Physicist as Novelist"
Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers.
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"This is story making that lifts the human spirit out of our sometimes petty terrestrial concerns and places us among the stars." -- Scientific American
Chronology protection, Stephen W. Hawking; Can we change the past?, Igor
Novikov; Speculations about the future, Kip S. Thorne; on the popularization
of science, Timothy Ferris; The physicist as novelist, Alan Lightman.
Stephen W. Hawking is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. 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. For bridging the worlds of science and the humanities, Thorne received Rockefeller Universitys Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. He lives in Pasadena, California. Igor Novikov is a theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and is a professor of astrophysics at the Observatory of the University of Copenhagen. Timothy Ferris is a science writer and has held professorships at four universities, teaching subjects as diverse as astronomy, philosophy, English, journalism, and history. He is currently an emeritus professor at UC Berkeley. Alan Lightman is a physicist and writer. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities. Richard Price is a leading American physicist, known for his work in general relativity. He is currently a professor at University of Texas Brownsville.
