Kip Thorne is the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, an executive producer for Interstellar, and the author of books including the bestselling Black Holes and Time Warps. He lives in Pasadena, California.
Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time. Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component.
这是一本带你初入物理天堂的好书。 首先,对于一个文科生而言,这是一本能够带给你很多“新鲜”知识的好书。作者开始讲一个故事开始,而后从介绍近现代的物理理论史娓娓道来,可以说是囊括了整个物理学界在近代史的发展脉络,以前我只知道爱因斯坦很牛,简直就是心...
評分“I ask myself, as I come to the end of fifteen years of on-and-off writing (mostly off), “What is the single most important thing that you want your readers to learn?” My answer: the amazing power of the human mind—by fits and starts, blind alleys, and ...
評分很惭愧,这样一本独一无二的书,我最近才把它读完。实在非常后悔我没有在做研究生的时候读完这本书。不过现在读完,对正在改革开放的我仍然有很大的影响。 买到这本书的时候我还是个物理学的大一新生,被书中的精彩的插图吸引才花钱把它从图书大厦的殿堂请到我...
評分作者: 第五元素[20963026] 时间:2003-07-15 09:21:03 收藏 加入文集 报警 昨晚在独自研读《黑洞与时间弯曲》时,被一个小问题纠缠不清,现只好求助于各位先知,恳请赐教。 家有此藏书者,可翻到229页,作者在这里讨论的牛顿和爱因斯坦关于黑洞的临界周长以下的...
評分花了一两个星期啃完,真的是啃,喂,不是说科普吗,为什么读得还这么艰难。看完书,除了记住了几个八卦(啊,为什么看完书好几个月了,我还能完整地复述出来),别的看完就忘或者说压根就没看懂……呜呜呜呜,脑子不好,还有救吗?
我看過的唯一一本黑洞書。。。。。。
评分Thorne和Guth是寫科普寫的最好的一流物理學傢,霍金不是。他們兩位有三個共同的優點:一是能把很復雜的物理概念用很清晰的物理圖景描述齣來;第二,這不但是一本好的科普書,還是一本很好的科學史書,把從廣義相對論誕生到二十世紀九十年代與黑洞研究相關的曆史、人物寫得精彩紛呈,好多掌故我都是第一次聽說;第三,整本書的語氣自信而不傲慢,有趣而親切。
评分 评分Kip Thorne是個瞭不起的作傢,閱讀體驗太好瞭
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