Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Hardcover edition

Author| Stephen Hawking
Language| English
Publisher| Bantam Dell Publishing Group

Publication date

| 1993
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print
Pages| 182
ISBN| 978-0553095234
OCLC| 28113477
LC Class| QC16.H33 A3 1993
Preceded by| A Brief History of Time
Followed by| The Universe in a Nutshell

Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays is a 1993 popular science book by English physicist Stephen Hawking.[1]

## Overview

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This book is a collection of essays and lectures written by Hawking, mainly about the makeup of black holes, and why they might be nodes from which other universes grow. Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. Hawking also describes his life when he was young, and his later experience of motor neurone disease. The book also includes an interview with Professor Hawking.[2]

## References

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1. ^ "Black Holes and Baby Universes AND OTHER ESSAYS By STEPHEN HAWKING". Penguin Random House. .com. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
2. ^ "Summary/Reviews: Black holes and baby universes and other..." www.buffalolib.org. Archived from the original on 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

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Stephen Hawking

Physics|

* Hawking radiation
* Black hole thermodynamics
* Micro black hole
* Chronology protection conjecture
* Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
* Gibbons–Hawking effect
* Gibbons–Hawking space
* Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
* Hartle–Hawking state
* Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
* Hawking energy

Books|

| Science|

* The Large Scale Structure of Space–Time (1973)
* A Brief History of Time (1988)
* Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
* The Nature of Space and Time (1996)
* The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)
* On the Shoulders of Giants (2002)
* A Briefer History of Time (2005)
* God Created the Integers (2005)
* The Grand Design (2010)
* The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of (2011)
* Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018)
* On the Origin of Time (2023, posthume message)

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Fiction|

* George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007)
* George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009)
* George and the Big Bang (2011)
* George and the Unbreakable Code (2014)
* George and the Blue Moon (2016)
* Unlocking the Universe (2020)

Memoirs|

* My Brief History (2013)

Films|

* A Brief History of Time (1991)
* Hawking (2004)
* Hawking (2013)
* The Theory of Everything (2014)

Television|

* God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988)
* Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997 documentary)
* Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008 documentary)
* Genius of Britain (2010 series)
* Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010 series)
* Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011 series)
* Genius by Stephen Hawking (2016 series)

Family|

* Jane Wilde Hawking (first wife)
* Lucy Hawking (daughter)

Other|

* In popular culture
* Namesakes
* Black hole information paradox
* Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet

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