Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, Paperback

Descriere

Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking'sA Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.

Despre autor

Kip Thorne

fizician american (n. 1940)

Kip Thorne este un fizician relativist american, experimentator și teoretician, profesor la California Technological Institute, discipol al lui John A. Wheeler, coautor al cursului binecunoscut de gravitație. Este laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Fizică 2017, împreună cu Rainer Weiss și Barry C. Barish, „pentru contribuții decisive la detectorul LIGO și observarea undelor gravitaționale”.