A collection of works by outstanding astrophysicists of our time arose from reports at a conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of one of them — Kip Thorne. As the authors of the “hodgepodge” themselves admit, the book contains three articles on scientific topics, one on how to write on scientific topics (Ferris), and one on the differences between scientists and writers (Lightman).
A collection of works by outstanding astrophysicists of our time arose from reports at a conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of one of them — Kip Thorne. As the authors of the “hodgepodge” themselves admit, the book contains three articles on scientific topics, one on how to write on scientific topics (Ferris), and one on the differences between scientists and writers (Lightman). In the center of the actual scientific reasoning — time travel, their paradoxes and their (im)possibility, future discoveries in the field of space-time (space-time). If “vacuum fluctuations”, “naked singularity”, “cosmic string” and “violet shift” do not seem to you an insurmountable obstacle to reading these living monologues, you have a chance to understand something that you did not even dare to approach before.
Amphora, 254 p.
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