A brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
 
A BANTAM BOOK: 9780857501004
 
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN: 9781409092360
First published in Great Britain
in 1988 by Bantam Press
an imprint of Transworld Publishers
Bantam edition published 1989
Bantam edition reissued 1995
Twentieth anniversary edition published by Bantam Press in 2008
Bantam edition reissued 2011
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Document Outline

• About the Book
• Contents
• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• 1. Our Picture of the Universe
• 2. Space and Time
• 3. The Expanding Universe
• 4. The Uncertainty Principle
• 5. Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature
• 6. Black Holes
• 7. Black Holes Ain’t So Black
• 8. The Origin and Fate of the Universe
• 9. The Arrow of Time
• 10. Wormholes and Time Travel
• 11. The Unification of Physics
• 12. Conclusion
• Albert Einstein
• Galileo Galilei
• Isaac Newton
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Index
• About the Author
• Also by Stephen Hawking
• Copyright