Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy is a popular science book by physicist Kip Thorne that explores the history, physics, and implications of black holes, wormholes, and general relativity for our understanding of space and time.
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Target entity: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy Context triple: [Kip Thorne, notableWork, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy]
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays is a 1993 collection of popular-science essays and reflections by physicist Stephen Hawking, exploring cosmology, black holes, and his personal life and ideas.
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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time is a popular science book by physicist Stephen Hawking that explains complex concepts in cosmology—such as the Big Bang, black holes, and the nature of time—in an accessible way for general readers.
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A Briefer History of Time
A Briefer History of Time is a later, more accessible revision of Stephen Hawking’s landmark cosmology book that simplifies and updates its explanations of the universe for a broader audience.
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Dreams of a Final Theory
Dreams of a Final Theory is a popular science book by physicist Steven Weinberg that explores the quest for a unified "theory of everything" in fundamental physics and reflects on the nature and philosophy of scientific explanation.
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E.
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell is a popular science book by physicist Stephen Hawking that explains advanced concepts in cosmology and theoretical physics for a general audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Target entity: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy Target entity description: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy is a popular science book by physicist Kip Thorne that explores the history, physics, and implications of black holes, wormholes, and general relativity for our understanding of space and time.
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A.
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays is a 1993 collection of popular-science essays and reflections by physicist Stephen Hawking, exploring cosmology, black holes, and his personal life and ideas.
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B.
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time is a popular science book by physicist Stephen Hawking that explains complex concepts in cosmology—such as the Big Bang, black holes, and the nature of time—in an accessible way for general readers.
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C.
A Briefer History of Time
A Briefer History of Time is a later, more accessible revision of Stephen Hawking’s landmark cosmology book that simplifies and updates its explanations of the universe for a broader audience.
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D.
Dreams of a Final Theory
Dreams of a Final Theory is a popular science book by physicist Steven Weinberg that explores the quest for a unified "theory of everything" in fundamental physics and reflects on the nature and philosophy of scientific explanation.
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E.
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell is a popular science book by physicist Stephen Hawking that explains advanced concepts in cosmology and theoretical physics for a general audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
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non-fiction book
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popular science book ⓘ |
| about |
Albert Einstein
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Hawking radiation ⓘ cosmology ⓘ event horizons ⓘ gravitational collapse ⓘ gravitational waves ⓘ history of black hole research ⓘ quantum effects near black holes ⓘ relativistic astrophysics ⓘ singularities ⓘ time dilation ⓘ time travel ⓘ wormhole physics ⓘ |
| author | Kip Thorne ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coversPeriod | 20th-century physics ⓘ |
| coversPerson |
John Archibald Wheeler
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Karl Schwarzschild ⓘ Roger Penrose ⓘ Stephen Hawking ⓘ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ⓘ |
| explainsConcept |
curved space-time
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event horizon ⓘ gravitational time dilation ⓘ singularity ⓘ time machine ⓘ wormhole ⓘ |
| explainsTheory |
general relativity
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special relativity ⓘ |
| genre | popular science ⓘ |
| hasIllustrationsBy | Kip Thorne ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
biographical
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conceptual ⓘ historical ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general audience
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non-specialist readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
astrophysics
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black holes ⓘ general relativity ⓘ history of physics ⓘ space-time ⓘ wormholes ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor | accessible explanation of black hole physics ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
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Subject: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy Description of subject: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy is a popular science book by physicist Kip Thorne that explores the history, physics, and implications of black holes, wormholes, and general relativity for our understanding of space and time.
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Kip Thorne