Scurtă istorie a timpului. De la Big Bang la găurile negre

Stephen Hawking explains, for non-specialists, how physicists understand the universe: our shifting ideas about space and time from Aristotle to Newton to Einstein, the expansion of the universe and the Big Bang, the nature of black holes and why they emit radiation, the arrow of time, and the search for a unified theory joining relativity and quantum mechanics. He uses almost no equations, apart from E = mc², and turns to analogies instead. Originally published in 1988, it closes by asking whether a final theory would mean we know the mind of God.

For curious readers who want an accessible tour of cosmology from one of its leading figures. You will have a better sense of what scientists mean by singularities, event horizons, and the beginning of time.

Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.

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