Astronomy:The Universe in a Nutshell

Short description: 2001 Stephen Hawking's book

The Universe in a Nutshell

First edition cover (UK)
Author	Stephen Hawking
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Subject	Theoretical Physics
Publisher	Bantam Spectra
Publication date	2001
Pages	224
ISBN	ISBN:0-553-80202-X
OCLC	46959876
Dewey Decimal	530.12 21
LC Class	QC174.12 .H39 2001
Preceded by	Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Followed by	On The Shoulders of Giants

The Universe in a Nutshell is a 2001 book about theoretical physics by Stephen Hawking. It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public concerning developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time was published in 1988.

Content

In it Hawking explains to a general audience various matters relating to the Lucasian professor's work, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and P-branes (part of superstring theory in quantum mechanics). He tells the history and principles of modern physics. He seeks to "combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into one complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe."

Awards

The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002.

See also

• Roger Penrose
• Kip Thorne
• Physical cosmology
• Positivism
• List of textbooks on classical and quantum mechanics
• List of books on general relativity