Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Black Holes and The Baby Universes and other Essays is a popular science book by British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. This book is mainly about the makeup of black holes and how they intertwine with "baby universes". It is a collection of both introductory and technical lectures on the thermodynamics of black holes, but it also includes descriptions on Special Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. This collection of lectures also includes essays on Hawking's personal life when he was young and, most famously, his disease, motor neurone disease. The book also includes an interview of Stephen Hawking.

A recent edition is ISBN 0-553-37411-7.

Stephen Hawking
Scientific career
  • Hawking radiation
  • Black hole thermodynamics
  • Gibbons–Hawking ansatz
  • Gibbons–Hawking effect
  • Gibbons–Hawking space
  • Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term
  • Hartle–Hawking state
Books
Science
  • The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (1973)
  • A Brief History of Time (1988)
  • Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1994)
  • The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)
  • On the Shoulders of Giants (2002)
  • A Briefer History of Time (2005)
  • God Created the Integers (2005)
  • The Grand Design (2010)
Fiction
  • George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007)
  • George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009)
  • George and the Big Bang (2011)
Family
  • Lucy Hawking (daughter)
Other
  • In popular culture
  • Black hole information paradox
  • Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet

Famous quotes containing the words holes and/or baby:

    “Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky?
    Was there a father?
    Or have the planets cut holes in their nets
    and let our childhood out,
    or are we the dolls themselves,
    born but never fed?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete ... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.”
    —Eda Le Shan (b. 1922)