The universe in a nutshell

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The Universe in the Nutshell (title of the English original edition: The Universe in a Nutshell , title of the German first edition Das Universum in der Nutschell ) is the second popular science book by the British physicist Stephen Hawking after A Brief History of Time .

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Simple models are used to explain the current theories that scientists use to describe the universe . Among other things, the string theory and its extension, the brane theory, are explained. The book, like its predecessor, was a great success. In 2002 the book won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

The English title The Universe in a Nutshell is a phrase that goes back to Shakespeare's Hamlet . There it says: “(Hamlet) O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space - were it not that I have bad dreams. “[II.ii.254] The English phrase" in a nutshell "means" in a nutshell ".

Chapter overview

The book is divided into seven chapters:

  1. A Brief History of Relativity
  2. The shape of time
  3. The universe in a nutshell
  4. Predict the future
  5. Protect the past
  6. Our Future: Star Trek Or Not?
  7. Brave new brand world

expenditure

The original English edition was published by Bantam Books in 2001, the German edition, translated by Hainer Kober , by Hoffmann and Campe in the same year . An abridged edition was also published as an audio book . In 2002 an expanded new edition of the book was published. A paperback edition has been available from Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag since 2003 . Additional translations are available in Arabic, Danish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian and Swedish.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Withdrawal from the chair: Hawking will retire in 2009 . Spiegel Online Wissenschaft, October 24, 2008, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Stephen Hawking. The Universe in a Nutshell. The Royal Society, accessed September 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Reading sample, dtv (PDF; 1.2 MB, 20 pages)