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BLACK HOLES
AND
TIME WARPS
Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy
KIP S. THORNE
THE FEYNMAN PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
A volume of
THE COMMONWEALTH FUND BOOK PROGRAM
under the editorship of Lewis Thomas, MD.
W • W • NORTON & COMPANY
New York     London
The Commonwealth Fund Book Program
gratefully acknowledges the assistance
of The Rockefeller University in the
administration of the program
I dedicate this book to
J
OHN
A
RCHIBALD
W
HEELER
,
my mentor and friend.
Contents
Foreword by Stephen Hawking
Introduction by Frederick Seitz
Preface
what this book is about, and how to read it
Prologue: A Voyage among the Holes
in which the reader, in a science fiction tale, encounters black holes and all their strange properties as best we understand them in the 1990s
1. The Relativity of Space and Time
in which Einstein destroys Newton’s conceptions of space and time as Absolute
2. The Warping of Space and Time
in which Hermann Minkowski unifies space and time, and Einstein warps them
3. Black Holes Discovered and Rejected
in which Einstein’s laws of warped spacetime predict black holes, and Einstein rejects the prediction
4. The Mystery of the White Dwarfs
in which Eddington and Chandrasekhar do battle over the deaths of massive stars; must they shrink when they die, creating black holes? or will quantum mechanics save them?
5. Implosion Is Compulsory
in which even the nuclear force, supposedly the strongest of all forces, cannot resist the crush of gravity
6. Implosion to What?
in which all the armaments of theoretical physics cannot ward off the conclusion: implosion produces black holes
7. The Golden Age
in which black holes are found to spin and pulsate, store energy and release it, and have no hair
8. The Search
in which a method to search for black holes in the sky is proposed and pursued and succeeds (probably)
9. Serendipity
in which astronomers are forced to conclude, without any prior predictions, that black holes a millionfold heavier than the Sun inhabit the cores of galaxies (probably)
10. Ripples of Curvature
in which gravitational waves carry to Earth encoded symphonies of black holes colliding, and physicists devise instruments to monitor the waves and decipher their symphonies
11. What Is Reality?
in which spacetime is viewed as curved on Sundays and flat on Mondays, and horizons are made from vacuum on Sundays and charge on Mondays, but Sundays experiments and Monday’s experiments agree in all details
12. Black Holes ............

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