Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Hardcover edition
Author	Stephen Hawking
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Publication date	1993
Media type	Print
Pages	182 pp.
ISBN	978-0553095234
OCLC	28113477
LC Class	QC16.H33 A3 1993
Preceded by	A Brief History of Time
Followed by	The Universe in a Nutshell

Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays is a popular science book by English astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.

This book is a collection of essays and lectures written by Hawking, mainly about the makeup of black holes, and why they might be nodes from which other universes grow. Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. Hawking also describes his life when he was young, and his later experience of motor neurone disease. The book also includes an interview with Professor Hawking.^[1]

References

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Stephen Hawking

Science

Books

Science	The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (1973) A Brief History of Time (1988) Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993) The Universe in a Nutshell (2001) On the Shoulders of Giants (2002) A Briefer History of Time (2005) God Created the Integers (2005) The Grand Design (2010)

Fiction	George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009) George and the Big Bang (2011) George and the Unbreakable Code (2014)

Films

Family

Jane Wilde Hawking (1st wife)
Lucy Hawking (daughter)

Other

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