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An edition of On the Origin of Time (2023)

On the Origin of Time

Stephen Hawking’s final theory

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A scientific biography of Stephen Hawking’s work from the time the author becomes Hawking’s student until Hawking’s death.

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Bantam
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313

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Subjects

the anthropic principle, black holes, cosmology, gravity, mathematics, quantum cosmology, quantum physics, string theory

People

Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Georges Lemaître, Stephen Weinberg, John Archibald Wheeler

Places

Cambridge (England), the universes

Times

late 1990s to 2020, the 20th century

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First Sentence

"The door to Stephen Hawking’s office was olive green, and, though it was right off of the bustling common room, Stephen liked it to be slightly open."

Table of Contents

Preface
Page xi
Contents
Page xxiii
1. A Paradox
Page 3
2. Day Without Yesterday
Page 35
3. Cosmogenesis
Page 72
4. Ashes and Smoke
Page 104
5. Lost in the Multiverse
Page 132
6. No Question? No History!
Page 165
7. Time Without Time
Page 210
8. At Home in the Universe
Page 250
Acknowledgments
Page 267
Illustration Credits
Page 271
Bibliography
Page 273
Notes
Page 275
Index
Page 299

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2023

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
523.1/2—dc23/eng20221021
Library of Congress
QB981.H475 2023

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xxiv, 313p
Number of pages
313
Weight
682 grams

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Open Library
OL49638519M
ISBN 13
9780593128442

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