Stephen Hawking, His Life and Work by Ferguson, Kitty -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Book Contents Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Part I: 1942–1975

1. ‘The quest for a Theory of Everything’ 2. ‘Our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in’ 3. ‘Equal to anything!’ 4. ‘The realization that I had an incurable disease, that was likely to kill me in a few years, was a bit of a shock’ 5. ‘The big question was, was there a beginning or not?’ 6. ‘There is a singularity in our past’

Part II: 1970–1990

7. ‘These people must think we are used to an astronomical standard of living’ 8. ‘Scientists usually assume there is a unique link between the past and the future, cause and effect. If information is lost, this link does not exist’ 9. ‘The odds against a universe that has produced life like ours are immense’ 10. ‘In all my travels, I have not managed to fall off the edge of the world’ 11. ‘It’s turtles all the way down’ 12. ‘The field of baby universes is in its infancy’

Part III: 1990–2000

13. ‘Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?’ 14. ‘Between film roles I enjoy solving physics problems’ 15. ‘I think we have a good chance of avoiding both Armageddon and a new Dark Age’ 16. ‘It seems clear to me’

Part IV: 2000–2011

17. ‘An expanding horizon of possibilities’ 18. ‘Grandad has wheels’ 19. ‘I’ve always gone in a somewhat different direction’ 20. ‘My name is Stephen Hawking: physicist, cosmologist and something of a dreamer’

Picture Section Glossary References Suggested Further Reading Bibliography Picture Acknowledgements Index About the Author Also by Kitty Ferguson Copyright

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