The Universe in a Nutshell

The Universe in a Nutshell

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author = Stephen Hawking
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language = English
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subject = Theoretical Physics
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publisher = Bantam Spectra
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"The Universe in a Nutshell" is one of Stephen Hawking's latest books on theoretical physics. It 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).

"The Universe in a Nutshell" is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002. The book reached major popularity in the market. It is generally considered a sequel and has been created to update the public of developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller "A Brief History of Time" published in 1988.

Contents

# A Brief History of Relativity
# The Shape of Time
# The Universe in a Nutshell
# Predicting the Future
# Protecting the Past
# Our Future? Star Trek or Not?
# Brane New World

See also

* Roger Penrose
* Kip Thorne
* Physical cosmology


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