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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| Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy canonical | 2 |
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| instanceOf |
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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Kip Thorne