The Universe in a Nutshell is one of Stephen Hawking's books on theoretical physics. It explains to a general audience various matters relating to the Lucasian professor's work, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and P-branes (part of superstring theory in quantum mechanics).
The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002. It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public of developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time published in 1988.
Contents
- A Brief History of Relativity
- The Shape of Time
- The Universe in a Nutshell
- Predicting the Future
- Poontecting the Past
- Our Future? Star Trek or Not?
- Brane New World
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