Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
978-0553095234OCLC 28113477 LC Class QC16.H33 A3 1993 Preceded by A Brief History of Time Followed by The Universe in a Nutshell Physics Books
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays is a 1993 popular science book by English physicist Stephen Hawking.[1]
Overview
This book is a collection of essays and lectures written by Hawking, mainly about the makeup of black holes, and why they might be nodes from which other universes grow. Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. Hawking also describes his life when he was young, and his later experience of motor neurone disease. The book also includes an interview with Professor Hawking.[2]
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Stephen Hawking
- Hawking radiation
- Black hole thermodynamics
- Micro black hole
- Chronology protection conjecture
- Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
- Gibbons–Hawking effect
- Gibbons–Hawking space
- Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
- Hartle–Hawking state
- Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
- Hawking energy
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- A Brief History of Time (1991)
- Hawking (2004)
- Hawking (2013)
- The Theory of Everything (2014)
- God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988)
- Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997 documentary)
- Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008 documentary)
- Genius of Britain (2010 series)
- Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010 series)
- Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011 series)
- Genius by Stephen Hawking (2016 series)
- Jane Wilde Hawking (first wife)
- Lucy Hawking (daughter)
