S.ホーキング M.レナード『ホーキング、宇宙と人間を語る』(原書) The Grand Design

Hawking, Stephen/ Mlodinow, Leonard

Random House Inc（2010/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780553805376
• DDC分類 530.142

基本説明

邦訳：2011年1月・エクスナレッジ。世界的ベストセラー「ホーキング、宇宙を語る」に続く、ホーキング博士待望の最新刊。宇宙の創造と起源についての根源的な疑問について、ホーキング、ムロディナウ博士の共著は、最新の宇宙に関する知識と思想を、専門用語を用いず、わかりやすく、シンプルに解説している。欧米メディアでは、早くも、ホーキング、ビッグバンに神の介在は無いと断言、などと報道され、論争を巻き起こしている。
In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.
In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole, this idea calls into question the very notion of cause and effect. But the “top-down” approach to cosmology that Hawking and Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather than that history creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature.