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Acknowledgments
Thanks to our editor, Ann Harris, at Bantam for lending us her considerable experience and talent in our efforts to hone the manuscript. To Glen Edelstein, Bantam’s art director, for his tireless efforts and his patience. To our art team, Philip Dunn, James Zhang, and Kees Veenenbos, for taking the time to learn some physics, and then, while not sacrificing the scientific content, making the book look fabulous. To our agents, Al Zuckerman and Susan Ginsburg at Writer’s House, for their intelligence, caring, and support. To Monica Guy for proof-reading. And to those who kindly read various drafts of the manuscript in our search for passages where clarity could be improved further: Donna Scott, Alexei Mlodinow, Nicolai Mlodinow, Mark Hillery, Joshua Webman, Stephen Youra, Robert Barkovitz, Martha Lowther, Katherine Ball, Amanda Bergen, Jeffrey Boehmer, Kimberly Comer, Peter Cook, Matthew Dickinson, Drew Donovanik, David Fralinger, Eleanor Grewal, Alicia Kingston, Victor Lamond, Michael Melton, Mychael Mulhern, Matthew Richards, Michelle Rose, Sarah Schmitt, Curtis Simmons, Christine Webb, and Christopher Wright.
ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING
A Brief History of TimeBlack Holes and Baby Universes and Other EssaysThe Illustrated A Brief History of Time The Universe in a Nutshell
 
ALSO BY LEONARD MLODINOW
 
Euclid’s Window
Feynman’s Rainbow
About the Authors
STEPHEN HAWKING is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge; his other books for the general reader include the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes and The Universe in aNutshell.
LEONARD MLODINOW, his collaborator for this new edition, has taught at Caltech, written for Star Trek: The Next Generation, and is the author of Euclid’s Window and Feynman’s Rainbow and the coauthor of the children’s book series The Kids of Einstein Elementary.
Glossary
Absolute zero: The lowest possible temperature, at which substances contain no heat energy.
Acceleration: The rate at which the speed of an object is changing.
Anthropic principle: The idea that we see the universe the way it is because if it were different, we would not be here to observe it.
Antiparticle: Each type of matter particle has a corresponding antiparticle. When a particle collides with its antiparticle, both are annihilated, leaving only energy.
Atom: The basic unit of ordinary matter, made up of a tiny nucleus (consisting of protons and neutrons) surrounded by orbiting electrons.
Big bang: The singularit ............

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