1, A Brief History of Time is a scientific work created by British physicist Stephen Hawking, which was first published in 1988. The twelve chapters of the book are all cutting-edge knowledge about the nature of the universe, including: our universe image, time and space, expanding universe, uncertainty principle, black hole, the origin and fate of the universe, etc. Introduce distant galaxies, black holes, particles, antimatter and other knowledge in simple terms, and elaborate ancient propositions such as the origin of the universe, time and space, and relativity.
In this book, Hawking discusses the unresolved conflicts in the existing theories of the universe and points out the problems in unifying quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and general relativity. The orientation of this book is to let ordinary readers who are interested in cosmology know his theory and its mathematical principles.
2. The Universe in the Shell is a book translated by Wu and published by Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House in 2002. The original author is Stephen Hawking. This book won the Aventis Science Book Award. The book focuses on cosmology, involving many frontier concepts such as general relativity, quantum theory, black hole, inflation, time travel, string theory, supergravity and so on.
3. The Grand Design is a book published by Hunan Science and Technology Press on 20 1 1. The author is Stephen Hawking. Hawking's A Brief History of Time is his summary of theoretical physics and cosmology before 1988. Now that the wheel of history has turned for more than 20 years, mankind has made new discoveries and understandings of the universe, and he himself has also made many new thoughts on the universe and the theory of great unity, and made many predictions and prospects for the future development.
4. My Brief History 20 14 was published by Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House in July, and the author was Stephen Hawking. This book tells the story of his growth from a boy in postwar London to an outstanding international academic superstar.
Just as A Brief History of Time only includes Einstein's mass-energy equivalent formula, the book only includes one formula, namely Hawking's black hole entropy formula: in Planck unit, the entropy of a black hole is equal to a quarter of the black hole horizon area; In the usual units, this formula shows the speed of light, gravitational constant, Planck constant and Boltzmann constant. This shows that gravity theory, quantum theory and thermophysics have been unified in the scene of Hawking black hole radiation. ? The Chinese version of the book published by Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House was selected in the list of "20 14 China Good Books".
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Stephen william hawking is one of the great men with international reputation in this century, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of Cambridge University, and the most important contemporary general relativity and cosmologist. Lucas Lecture on Mathematics at Cambridge University, UK, which is the highest honor lecture in the history of natural science after Newton and Dirac.
In 1970s, together with Penrose, he proved the famous singularity theorem. For this reason, they all won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1988. He is therefore known as the most famous scientific thinker and the most outstanding theoretical physicist in the world after Einstein. Conquered 30 million readers around the world with a thin "A Brief History of Time". The black hole theory perfectly unifies quantum theory and thermodynamics in Hawking's radiation. The borderless quantum cosmology proposed by him in 1980s solved the "first push" problem that puzzled the scientific community for hundreds of years.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Hawking