A Brief History of Time pdf

斯蒂芬·威廉·霍金 1942 年生于英国牛津，2018 年逝世，是世界上最著名的理论物理学家和宇宙学家之一，曾就读于牛津大学并获得物理学一级荣誉学位，在剑桥大学完成学业获得宇宙科学博士学位，有宇宙学理论研究和黑洞与热力学关系研究，以及年代学研究。

A Brief History of Time pdf 斯蒂芬霍金

Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. The intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected.;Our picture of the universe -- Space and time -- The expanding universe -- The uncertainty principle -- Elementary particles and the forces of nature -- Black holes -- Black holes ain't so black -- The origin and fate of the universe -- The arrow of time -- Wormholes and time travel -- The unification of physics -- Conclusion.