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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
 

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S. Thorne

In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know what they know? Features an introduction by Stephen Hawking. (read review)

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Nyla
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“Having got acquainted with the ABC of the Physics of Space Science (!) with Stephen Hawking’s ‘A Brief History of Time’, a novice like me then turned to “Black Holes and Time Warps’.

Kip Thorne’s quality and voice in the writing of this book is so fine-tuned for the un-apprenticed, that anyone can pick it up and travel through the reading with ease.

To start with, he takes us on a space travel that is of course at the moment mythical, but still alluring enough to keep one...”

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“I thought the author has a great first name.”

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