Name: Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein' S Outrageous Legacy: 0 (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
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Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Kip Thorne
ISBN: 9780393312768

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Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein' S Outrageous Legacy: 0 (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

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Physical Book

Author

Kip Thorne

Preface by

Stephen W. Hawking

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.5x15.7x3 cm

Weight

0.79 kg.

ISBN

0393312763

ISBN13

9780393312768

Synopsis "Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein' S Outrageous Legacy: 0 (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) "

Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

Kip Thorne

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Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, known for his numerous contributions in the field of gravitational physics and astrophysics and for having trained an entire generation of scientists.

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David Choque Monday, July 06, 2015
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Hermoso libro !!!!
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William Chacon Thursday, September 10, 2020
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Simplemente genial!! Thorne en un lenguaje fácil, expone cómo se.llego a concluir la existencia de agujeros negros.
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Julián Gómez Wednesday, October 02, 2024
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Interesante, didáctico. Formativo.
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