Stephen
Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow - A Briefer History of Time Audiobook |
ISBN 10: 0553176986 | English | MP3 64.00 kbps | 183 mb
Popular scientific literature, Science - Cosmology, Philosophy
Stephen
Hawking’s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a
landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author’s engaging voice is
one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the
nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and
future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its
publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their
great difficulty in understanding some of the book’s most important
concepts.
This is the origin of and the reason for A Briefer History
of Time: its author’s wish to make its content more accessible to
readers –as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific
observations and findings.
Although this book is literally somewhat
“briefer,�?it actually expands on the great subjects of the original.
Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary
conditions, are gone. Conversely, subjects of wide interest that were
difficult to follow because they were interspersed throughout the book
have now been given entire chapters of their own, including relativity,
curved space, and quantum theory.
This reorganization has allowed the
authors to expand areas of special interest and recent progress, from
the latest developments in string theory to exciting developments in the
search for a complete unified theory of all the forces of physics. Like
prior editions of the book–but even more so–A Briefer History of Time
will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the
tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.
