A Hawking-eye View of the Universe, from SCIENCE# Astronomy - 天文
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The following is from SCIENCE Vol 296, P267 of April 12, 2002
A Hawking-eye View of the Universe
A review by Marc Kamionkowski*
The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking
Bantam, New York, 2001. 224 pp. $35, C$53, ?20. ISBN
0-553-80202-X.
In the world of Newton and Galileo, space and time were the
flat, featureless canvas on which were painted the then-known
celestial objects. Einstein's canvas was curved and it had bumps
and wiggles caused by the presence of matter. During the past
few decades,
A Hawking-eye View of the Universe
A review by Marc Kamionkowski*
The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking
Bantam, New York, 2001. 224 pp. $35, C$53, ?20. ISBN
0-553-80202-X.
In the world of Newton and Galileo, space and time were the
flat, featureless canvas on which were painted the then-known
celestial objects. Einstein's canvas was curved and it had bumps
and wiggles caused by the presence of matter. During the past
few decades,