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Black Holes and Time Warps

Kip S. Thorne

  • 619 pages · about 10 hours
  • First published 1994
  • 4 editions
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1 About this book

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy is a 1994 popular science book by physicist Kip Thorne. It provides an illustrated overview of the history and development of black hole theory, from its roots in Newtonian mechanics until the early 1990s.

Good for readers who want: philosophy, physics, and a long read.

  • Astrophysics
  • Black holes
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Physics, philosophy
  • Relativity (Physics)
  • Space and time

2 About Kip S. Thorne

Born 1940

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". With John A. Wheeler and Charles Misner, he coauthored the general relativity textbook Gravitation in 1973.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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