The Universe in a Nutshell

图书标准信息

• 作者 Stephen Hawking 著
• 出版社 Random House US
• 出版时间 2001-11
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780553802023
• 定价 261.60元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 224页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

StephenHawking’sphenomenal,multimillion-copybestseller,ABriefHistoryofTime,introducedtheideasofthisbrillianttheoreticalphysicisttoreadersallovertheworld.

Now,inamajorpublishingevent,Hawkingreturnswithalavishlyillustratedsequelthatunravelsthemysteriesofthemajorbreakthroughsthathaveoccurredintheyearssincethereleaseofhisacclaimedfirstbook.

TheUniverseinaNutshell

•Quantummechanics
•M-theory
•Generalrelativity
•11-dimensionalsupergravity
•10-dimensionalmembranes
•Superstrings
•P-branes
•Blackholes

Oneofthemostinfluentialthinkersofourtime,StephenHawkingisanintellectualicon,knownnotonlyfortheadventurousnessofhisideasbutfortheclarityandwitwithwhichheexpressesthem.InthisnewbookHawkingtakesustothecuttingedgeoftheoreticalphysics,wheretruthisoftenstrangerthanfiction,toexplaininlaymen’stermstheprinciplesthatcontrolouruniverse.

Likemanyinthecommunityoftheoreticalphysicists,ProfessorHawkingisseekingtouncoverthegrailofscience—theelusiveTheoryofEverythingthatliesattheheartofthecosmos.Inhisaccessibleandoftenplayfulstyle,heguidesusonhissearchtouncoverthesecretsoftheuniverse—fromsupergravitytosupersymmetry,fromquantumtheorytoM-theory,fromholographytoduality.

Hetakesustothewildfrontiersofscience,wheresuperstringtheoryandp-branesmayholdthefinalcluetothepuzzle.Andheletsusbehindthescenesofoneofhismostexcitingintellectualadventuresasheseeks“tocombineEinstein’sGeneralTheoryofRelativityandRichardFeynman’sideaofmultiplehistoriesintoonecompleteunifiedtheorythatwilldescribeeverythingthathappensintheuniverse.”

Withcharacteristicexuberance,ProfessorHawkinginvitesustobefellowtravelersonthisextraordinaryvoyagethroughspace-time.Copiousfour-colorillustrationshelpclarifythisjourneyintoasurrealwonderlandwhereparticles,sheets,andstringsmoveinelevendimensions;whereblackholesevaporateanddisappear,takingtheirsecretwiththem;andwheretheoriginalcosmicseedfromwhichourownuniversesprangwasatinynut.

TheUniverseinaNutshellisessentialreadingforallofuswhowanttounderstandtheuniverseinwhichwelive.Likeitscompanionvolume,ABriefHistoryofTime,itconveystheexcitementfeltwithinthescientificcommunityasthesecretsofthecosmosrevealthemselves.

【作者简介】

StephenHawkingisLucasianProfessorofMathematicsattheUniversityofCambridge;hisotherbooksforthegeneralreaderincludetheessaycollectionBlackHolesandBabyUniversesandTheUniverseinaNutshell.,,