书名：The Universe In A Nutshell果壳中的宇宙

作者：Stephen Hawking 

出版社名称：Bantam Press 

出版时间：2001 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780593048153 

商品尺寸：19.7 x 2.2 x 26.3 cm 

包装：精装 

页数：224（以实物为准）The Universe In A Nutshell《果壳中的宇宙》作者是史蒂芬·霍金。该图书曾获得安万特科学图书奖。该书围绕主题是宇宙学，涉及广义相对论、量子论、黑洞、暴胀、时间旅行、弦论、超引力等诸多前沿概念。

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide. It continues to captivate and inspire new readers every year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening years there have been extraordinary advances in our understanding of the space and time. The technology for observing the micro- and macro-cosmic world has developed in leaps and bounds. During the same period cosmology and the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age. Professor Stephen Hawking has been at the heart of this new scientific renaissance. Now, in The Universe in a Nutshell, beautifully illustrated with original artwork commissioned for this project, Stephen Hawking brings us fully up-to-date with the advances in scientific thinking. We are now nearer than we have ever been to a full understanding of the universe. In a fascinating and accessible discussion that ranges from quantum mechanics, to time travel, black holes to uncertainty theory, to the search for science's Holy Grail - the unified field theory (or in layman's terms the 'theory of absolutely everything') Professor Hawking once more takes us to the cutting edge of modern thinking. 相对论和量子论是20世纪伟大的科学成就。尤其是前者，他完全是人类智慧的伟大构筑。所以在《果壳中的宇宙》的章相对论简史中主要是关于爱因斯坦的生平。量子论则是实验观测的被动产物，它的含义迄今还解释不清。在广义相对论中，时空不再是一个被动的背景，而是宇宙演化的主动参与者。物质分布使时空弯曲。现在再去侈谈宇宙之外的空间和时间，对这些概念进行所谓的思辨，只能是倒退到圣奥古斯丁之前。牛顿的时空观是一个虚幻，而虚幻的功能是对软弱者的安慰。 爱因斯坦的引力论是将万有引力归结为时空的曲率。那么时空能否被弯曲得这么厉害，以至于人们可以返回到过去改变历史呢？严格的科学计算指出，这是不可能的。 那么关于预言将来的能力呢？现在看来它至少在三个层次上受到限制。，是动力学系统的混沌行为，使得拉普拉斯意义上的决定性在实际上是不可能实现的。第二，在量子力学中状态是由波函数描述的，海森堡的不确定……

One of the most influential thinkers of our time, Stephen Hawking is an intellectual icon, known not only for the adventurousness of his ideas but for the clarity and wit with which he expresses them. His phenomenal multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time introduced the fascinating world of theoretical physics to readers all over the world. Now, in a major new lavishly illustrated book, Hawking turns to the major breakthroughs that have occurred in the years since the release of his acclaimed first book. He brings to us the cutting edge of theoretical physics, where truth is often stranger than fiction, and explains in layman's terms the principles that control our universe. Like many in the international scientific community, Professor Hawking is seeking to uncover the grail of science - the elusive Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos. In The Universe in a Nutshell, he guides us on his search to uncover the secrets of the universe - from supergravity to supersymmetry, from quantum theory to M-theory, from holography to duality. In this most exciting intellectual adventure he seeks 'to combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into one complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe'. He takes us to the wild frontiers of science where superstring theory and p-branes may hold the final clue to the puzzle. The Universe in a Nutshell is essential reading for all those who want to understand the universe in which we live.

史蒂芬·霍金（1942年1月8日—2018年3月14日），ALS患者，英国物理学家和宇宙学家。肌肉萎缩性侧索硬化症患者，全身瘫痪，不能发音。霍金的主要研究领域是宇宙论和黑洞，证明了广义相对论的奇性定理和黑洞面积定理，提出了黑洞蒸发现象和无边界的霍金宇宙模型，在统一20世纪物理学的两大基础理论——爱因斯坦创立的相对论和普朗克创立的量子力学方面走出了重要一步。

霍金是继牛顿和爱因斯坦之后杰出的物理学家之一，被世人誉为“宇宙之王”。2017年4月，霍金接访采访表示，他比以前更加坚定地认为人类应该在2117年之前离开地球。 2018年3月14日，史蒂芬·霍金去世，享年76岁。 In 1963, Stephen Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. For thirty years he held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Science.