A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME (HAWKING AND MLODINOW BOOK)

'A Briefer History of Time' (2005, ISBN 0-553-80436-7) is a popular-science book from the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow. It is an update and rewrite of Hawking's 1988 ''A Brief History of Time''. In this book Hawking and Mlodinow try to present quantum mechanics, string theory, and other topics in an easy way. The book also informs the reader of new frontiers of science since Hawking's previous book.

Contents

Contents

Contents

#Thinking About the Universe
#Our Evolving Picture of the Universe
#The Nature of a Scientific Theory
#Newton's Universe
#Relativity
#Curved Space
#The Expanding Universe
#The Big Bang, Black Holes, and the Evolution of the Universe
#Quantum Gravity
#Wormholes and Time Travel
#The Forces of Nature and the Unification of Physics
#Conclusions