A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Space and time once seemed like the fixed stage on which everything happened — an unchanging backdrop, identical for everyone. Stephen Hawking’s tour of modern physics takes that stage apart. Space and time are a physical fabric, and mass bends it. Gravity is not a mysterious force reaching across empty space; it is the shape of that fabric. This single idea reorganizes everything, from the orbits of planets to the death of stars to the first instant of the universe. And it runs headlong into a second theory, just as well tested, that governs the smallest scales and refuses to be merged with it.

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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes