Book:Stephen Hawking/The Universe in a Nutshell

Subject Matter

 * Physics

Contents

 * FOREWORD


 * CHAPTER 1 - A Brief History of Relativity
 * How Einstein laid the foundations of the two fundamental theories of the twentieth century: general relativity and quantum theory.


 * CHAPTER 2 - The Shape of Time
 * Einstein's general relativity gives time a shape. How this can be reconciled with quantum theory.


 * CHAPTER 3 - The Universe in a Nutshell
 * The universe has multiple histories, each of which is determined by a tiny nut.


 * CHAPTER 4 - Predicting the Future
 * How the loss of information in black holes may reduce our ability to predict the future.


 * CHAPTER 5 - Protecting the Past
 * Is time travel possible? Could an advanced civilisation go back and change the past?


 * CHAPTER 6 - Our Future? Star Trek or Not?
 * How biological and electronic life will go on developing in complexity at an ever increasing rata.


 * CHAPTER 7 - Brane New World
 * Do we live in a brane or are we just holograms?


 * Glossary
 * Suggested further readings
 * Acknowledgments
 * Index