The Shortest History of Time

Stephen Hawking - a legendary figure, English theoretical physicist and science popularizer, known for his work on black holes, one of the founders of quantum cosmology. The edition contains 37 color illustrations that complement and decorate the text. The book... makes the most complex puzzles and acute contradictions, which are being resolved at the forefront of the science of the Universe, comprehensible. "The Shortest History of Time" is more than an extensive commentary on the complex concepts and theories described in the legendary "A Brief History of Time." Authors Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, after 17 years during which much has changed in astrophysics, look anew at eternal questions: the nature of space and time, the role of God in the creation of the world, the past and future of the Universe. Data obtained from astronomical observatories, space telescopes, and physical laboratories have become a solid foundation for theoretical physics, which has fought for decades for a coherent, unified theory of fields that should unite all known types of interactions. Many believe this to be string theory, the principles and consequences of which are extensively interpreted by Professors Hawking and Mlodinow. Dark matter and dark energy, which we know only through gravitational effects, time travel, which the authors believe "is not worth betting on yet" - all this has become the focus of their attention.