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BLACK HOLES - BRIAN COX JEFF FORSHAW TASCHENBUCH

A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so
deadly  not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It's
time to explore our universe's most mysterious inhabitants Black Holes At the heart of the
Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. A place
where space and time are so warped that light is trapped if it ventures within 12 million km.
According to Einstein  inside lies the end of time. According to 21st-century physics  the
reality may be far more bizarre. Black holes lie where the most massive stars used to shine and
at the edge of our current understanding. They are naturally occurring objects  the inevitable
creations of gravity when too much matter collapses into not enough space. And yet  although
the laws of nature predict them  they fail fully to describe them. Black holes are places in
space and time where the laws of gravity  quantum physics and thermodynamics collide.
Originally thought to be so intellectually troubling that they simply could not exist  it is
only in the past few years that we have begun to glimpse a new synthesis  a deep connection
between gravity and quantum information theory that describes a holographic universe in which
space and time emerge from a network of quantum bits  and wormholes span the void. In this
groundbreaking book  Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our
understanding of black holes  a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century
of physics  from Einstein to Hawking and beyond  that ends with the startling conclusion that
our world may operate like a giant quantum computer.

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