The Universe in a Nutshell
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The Universe in a Nutshell is a 2001 book about theoretical physics by Stephen Hawking.[1][2] It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public concerning developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time was published in 1988.
Content
In it Hawking explains to a general audience various matters relating to the Lucasian professor's work, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and P-branes (part of superstring theory in quantum mechanics). He tells the history and principles of modern physics. He seeks to "combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into one complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe."[3]
Awards
The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
See also
- Roger Penrose
- Kip Thorne
- Physical cosmology
- Positivism
- List of textbooks on classical and quantum mechanics
- List of books on general relativity
References
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- ↑ The Universe in a Nutshell at Hawking.org.uk