A Brief History of Time

史蒂芬·霍金（Stephen Hawking, 1942- ），现任剑桥大学卢卡斯数学教授。他广被推崇为继爱因斯坦后最杰出的理论物理学家。霍金的主要著作有《时间简史》、《霍金讲演录——黑洞、婴儿宇宙及其他》和《果壳中的宇宙》。

出版者:Bantam

作者:Stephen Hawking

页数:212

出版时间:1998-9-1

价格:USD 18.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780553380163

图书标签:科普物理StephenHawking科学sciencePhysicsHawkingUniverse

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Book Description

"A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe. Since its publication, however, there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world, confirming many of Professor Hawking's predictions. Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, Hawking has written a new introduction, updated chapters throughout, and added an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel.

"A Brief History of Time" has guided nonscientists everywhere to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe, taking them to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions — as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. This anniversary edition makes vividly clear why Professor Hawking's eloquent classic has transformed our view of the universe.

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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."

--Therese Littleton

From Library Journal

A new edition?with pictures?for those who couldn't fathom the original.

About Author

Stephen Hawking, who was born on the anniversary of Galileo's death in 1942, holds Isaac Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, he is also the author of Black Holes and Baby Universes, a collection of essays published in 1993, as well as numerous scientific papers and books.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)22.8 　　　 　　　　　 　 width:(cm)15.5

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时间简史(插图本)

注：该书有2个封面内容完全一致，货品随机发送

读后感

全书涉及经典力学、电磁力学、相对论、量子力学、弦论等多个方面，对宇宙时空做了概括精要的解释，堪为现代物理的入门科普书籍。 在牺牲准确性及深度的前提下，全书通篇使用语句描述而只出现了一个方程式。遗憾的是，由于翻译中文水平欠佳（也许他有自己的方式，不过乏味呆板是...  

前几天和朋友聊天，我说现在这个时代就是没有力量，没有大哥，只有妖孽。朋友说或许有大哥我们不知道，也许是吧，不过从科学上来讲，这个大哥的存在还没有被我观测到，所以，既无法证实，也无法证伪。妖孽的存在倒是随处可见。 经常性地被一种无边无际的荒谬感击中，反复击中...  

我在想如果霍金是个正常人的话，这本书会不会还有这么多人买。买这本书的人估计是冲着霍金而不是书的内容买的。为什么这么说呢？宇宙学的科普书籍，有比这本更好的书。 本身这本书的翻译就有问题，在这样的基础上，居然还有这么多人写些歌功颂德的书评，我怀疑写这些东西的...  

2001年的夏天，学生年代的学生我们，被一个学生年龄的歌手牵起一阵风潮。谢霆锋在那年推出专辑《玉蝴蝶》,里边两首主打歌“玉蝴蝶”和“潜龙勿用”马上唱遍街头巷尾。“玉蝴蝶”这一首流行曲借着北京爱乐乐团的演出向电影大师奇斯洛夫斯基的《两生花》致敬，而“潜龙勿用”居然...  

用户评价

A love letter to outer space.

真的很好。就算對物理天文不感興趣也可以一覽

文字间有种魔力让你看完第一段就不自觉地往下看去，一直到最后一个标点。霍金用浅显的文字向我们诠释了理论物理学的蹉跎历史和无穷魅力。从Big Bang到Gravity，从General Relativity到String Theory，在认识基本理论的同时，了解了历史上众多科学家的伟大。尽管，我们普通人不及他们万一，但是，他们的梦想，就是使得宇宙的真理能被每个普通人接受，我们是他们实现自己梦想的必要因素和条件。尽管在有限的生命里，也许我们无法得知宇宙的真理，但是，能够看到一代代的天才为之努力而做的贡献，争执，我们也应该感到满足。Salute to all geniuses with my entire respect.

没想到写的如此深入浅出。。。

这本书贵在把得到结论的过程和思路写出来了；虽然我觉得广义相对论的部分可以更加详细些，我读感觉有些过于罗列结论，启发性不足。还是有很多能刷新我的认识之处（比如naked singularity）和新的知识（比如primordial blackhole）。想象一下此起彼伏的理论建设和出其不意的观测建立起的繁杂的宇宙图景，真不免让人肃然起敬。文笔也异常清晰优美。关于时间的方向性的那一章最为令人醍醐灌顶。实际上，读这本书让我明白了另外一件事，Scientific American上面为什么有那么多不成体系宇宙学的文章，原来它们全是本书的续集啊。