Thomas Hertog
On the Origin of Time

Stephen Hawking's Final Theory


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780593128466

Astronomi och kosmologi. Häftad utgåva från Penguin Random House USA, 352 sidor.

  • Ny teori om universums ursprung och livets framväxt.

  • Författarens samarbete med Stephen Hawking under två decennier.

  • Häftad utgåva med 352 sidor på engelska.

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Bokförlag: Penguin Random House USA
Omfång: 352 | Språk: Engelska

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos—a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time.

“This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos.”—Lord Martin Rees

Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life.In order to solve this mystery, Hawking studied the big bang origin of the universe, buthis early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse—countless different universes, most of which would be far too bizarre to harbor life.

Holedupin the theoretical physics department at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking and his friend and collaborator ThomasHertogworkedon this problem for twenty years, developing a new theory of the cosmos that could account for the emergence of life. Peering into the extreme quantum physics of cosmic holograms and venturing far back in time to our deepest roots, they were startled to find a deeper level of evolution in which thephysical laws themselvestransform and simplify until particles, forces, and even time itself fadesaway.This discovery led them to a revolutionary idea: The laws of physics are not set in stone but areborn and co-evolve as the universe they govern takes shape. As Hawking’s final days drew near, the two collaborators published their theory, which proposed aradical new Darwinian perspective on the origins of our universe.

On the Origin of Time offersa striking new vision of the universe’s birth that will profoundlytransform the way we think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately prove to be Hawking’s greatest legacy.

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