Black Holes and Baby Universes (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Hawking
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Science/Nature
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Science and technology
- Subjects: Autobiography, Science or scientists, Space flight or travel, Human race, Diseases, Space and time, Physics or physicists, Quantum theory, Viruses
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
Stephen Hawking’s pragmatic reason for collecting his speeches and writings in BLACK HOLES AND BABY UNIVERSES was to make money to pay for the twenty-four-hour nursing care necessitated by his debilitating illness, but he also wanted to satisfy the curiosity of those millions of readers who made his A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME a monumental bestseller and who wanted to know about his personal life and his new interests, such as how black holes give birth to baby universes (self-contained worlds that branch off from our own). Since several of these essays were delivered as speeches before...
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