The Universe in a Nutshell

The Universe in a Nutshell is one of Stephen Hawking's books on theoretical physics. It 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). It tells the history and principals of modern physics.

The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002. It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public of developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time published in 1988.

Contents

1. A Brief History of Relativity
2. The Shape of Time
3. The Universe in a Nutshell
4. Predicting the Future
5. Protecting the Past
6. Our Future? Star Trek or Not?
7. Brane New World

See also

• Roger Penrose
• Kip Thorne
• Physical cosmology

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