《时间简史》自1988年首版以来，已成为全球科学著作的里程碑。它被翻译成40种文字，销售了近10000万册，成为国际出版史上的奇观。该书内容是关于宇宙本性的最前沿知识，但是从那以后无论在微观还是宏观宇宙世界的观测技术方面都有了非凡的进展。这些观测证实了霍金在该书第一版中的许多理论预言，其中包括宇宙背景探险者(COBE)的最新发现，它在时间上回溯探测到离宇宙创生的30万年之内，显露了霍金超人的时空感知能力。
Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.
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