“The World in a Nutshell” or “ The Universe in a Nutshell ” ( English “The Universe in a Nutshell” - more correct translation - “About the Universe in a nutshell”) is one of the popular science books of the famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking . It is a kind of continuation of the previous bestseller of the author of “A Brief History of Time” (published in 1988) and tells about the scientific achievements achieved in the world of physics since then.
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| Author | Stephen Hawking |
| Genre | Popular Science |
| Original language | English |
| Original published | 2001 |
| Publisher | Amphora |
| Release | 2011 |
| Pages | 220 |
| ISBN | 978-5-367-01992-6 |
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The pages of the book in a popular language pose such scientific problems as the scope of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem and string theory , quantum theory and supergravity . Together with readers, the author is trying to come closer to the Theory of everything - a fundamental theory that could explain all the phenomena in the universe.
In 2002, Hawking was awarded the Aventis Award for Best Scientific Writer for The World in a Nutshell.
Content
Chapters
- A Brief History of Relativity
- The Shape of Time
- The world in a nutshell / The Universe in a Nutshell
- Predicting the Future
- Protecting the Past
- Our future? Star Trek or not? / Our Future? Star Trek or Not?
- Brane New World
Name Selection
The original name “ The Universe in a Nutshell” is a pun that cannot be translated into Russian. The title refers to a quote from Hamlet: “Oh my God, I could lock myself in a nutshell and consider myself the king of infinite space [1] .” In English, “in a nutshell” is translated as “briefly” [2] . A grammatically more correct translation could be, for example, the “Brief History of the Universe” variant, which would also be intertwined with the title of another book by S. Hawking “A Brief History of Time” [3] , however, in this case, a reference to Shakespeare would be lost.
Notes
- ↑ William Shakespeare. The tragedy of Hamlet, the Danish prince: a play . - FTM, 2016-12-31. - 247 p. - ISBN 9785446724833 .
- ↑ Transfers of nutshell (En-Ru) to ABBYY Lingvo Live . www.lingvolive.com. Date of treatment January 17, 2018.
- ↑ A Brief History of Time (Russian) // Wikipedia. - 2017-12-02.
Links
- The world in a nutshell. The latest secrets of the Universe in a short and colorful exposition - Book Club of the site Elements.ru .