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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Luckiest Man in the Universe
The General Theory of Relativity
Newton: The Concept of Force
Four Kinds of Force in the Universe
The Principia: Describing Newton’s Universe
Newton and Hawking
The Concept of Mass
Albert Einstein, the Saviour of Classical Physics
Einstein and Hawking
Einstein’s Happiest Thought
Finding the Right Equation
The Field Equations – What do they mean?
Visualising Curved Space: the Rubber Sheet Model
The Bending of Starlight: Eclipse of 29 May 1919
Solving Einstein’s Equations: Hawking’s Starting Material
1) The Schwarzschild Geometry
The Critical Radius
2) Friedmann: the Expanding Universe
Precursor to the Big Bang: Lemaître’s Primordial Aim
3) Oppenheimer: on Continued Gravitational Collapse, 1939
1 September 1939
1942 … A Turning Point in the Story
The Death of Einstein
The Hawking Era
The Unselfish Thesis Supervisor
Something You Need to Know: What is a Singularity?
The Evolution of the Universe
1965: a Big Year for Hawking
An Unstoppable Mind
The Sixties Revolution
Dallas 1963
Something You Need to Know: the Electro Magnetic Spectrum
1963: Quasars
1965: the Cosmic Background Radiation
Something You Need to Know — Thermal Radiation
History of the Universe
Black Holes — Wheeler Gives the Media a Buzz Word
The Age of Black Holes
What is a Black Hole ?
The Birth and Death of Stars
The Laws of Thermodynamics
How Stars Collapse to Form White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars & Black Holes
Observational Evidence for Black Holes
The 1970s: Hawking and Black Holes
Hawking’s Eureka Moment
Now Back to Black Holes …
Controversial Birth of a New Idea
August 1972, Les Houches Summer School on Black Hole Physics
The Uncertainty Principle & Virtual Particles
February 1974, The Rutherford- Appleton Laboratory, Oxford
Hawking and the Vatican – a Modern Day Galileo
Hawking and the Early Universe
Why Do We Need Quantum Theory?
Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Gravity or TOE
Quantum Cosmology and Complex Time
Waves and Particles: Nature’s Joke on the Physicists
The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Cosmology: Applying Schrödinger’s Equation to the Universe
DAMTP: 17 February 1995
Inflation
Inflation and Quantum Fluctuations
The Anthropic Principle
Hawking’s Nobel Prize
COBE: the Greatest Discovery of All Time (?)
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
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