A Brief History of Time [Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition] (1998) by Stephen William Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow.pdf

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking
Chapter 1 - Our Picture of the Universe

Chapter 2 - Space and Time

Chapter 3 - The Expanding Universe

Chapter 4 - The Uncertainty Principle

Chapter 5 - Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature

Chapter 6 - Black Holes

Chapter 7 - Black Holes Ain't So Black

Chapter 8 - The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Chapter 9 - The Arrow of Time

Chapter 10 - Wormholes and Time Travel

Chapter 11 - The Unification of Physics

Chapter 12 - Conclusion

Glossary

Acknowledgments & About The Author
FOREW ORD

I didn’t write a foreword to the original edition of A Brief History of
Time. That was done by Carl Sagan. Instead, I wrote a short piece
titled “Acknowledgments” in which I was advised to thank everyone.
Some of the foundations that had given me support weren’t too
pleased to have been mentioned, however, because it led to a great
increase in applications.
I don’t think anyone, my publishers, my agent, or myself, expected
the book to do anything like as well as it did.
It was in the London Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks,
longer than any other book (apparently, the Bible and Shakespeare
aren’t counted). It has been translated into something like forty
languages and has sold about one copy for every 750 men, women,
and children in the world. As Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft (a former
post-doc of mine) remarked: I have sold more books on physics than
Madonna has on sex.
The ess of A Brief History indicates that there is widespread
interest in the big questions like: Where did e from? And why is
the universe the way it is?
I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new
theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first
published (on April Fools’ Day, 1988). I have included a new chapter
on wormholes and time travel. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
seems to offer