内容摘要 《时间简史》是英国物理学家斯蒂芬·霍金创作的科学著作,首次出版于1988年。全书共十二章,讲的全都是关于宇宙本性的最前沿知识,包括:我们的宇宙图像、空间和时间、膨胀的宇宙、不确定性原理、黑洞、宇宙的起源和命运等内容,深入浅出地介绍了遥远星系、黑洞、粒子、反物质等知识,并对宇宙的起源、空间和时间以及相对论等古老命题进行了阐述。在该书里,霍金探究了已有宇宙理论中存在的未解决的冲突,并指出了把量子力学、热动力学和广义相对论统一起来存在的问题,该书的定位是让那些对宇宙学有兴趣的普通读者了解他的理论和其中的数学原理。该书自1988年首版以来,已被翻译成40种文字,累计销售量达2500万册,成为一本畅销全世界的科学著作。 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has become a landmark volume in science writing. Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time, explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin?and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending?or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and ";arrows of time,"; of the big bang and a bigger God?where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.