Black Holes & Time Warps

Book cover of Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

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Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space…

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Rush Leaming

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So, I didn’t read much fiction last year. Been doing research for my next novel so I read a lot of science books, mostly theoretical physics, which should give you a heads up to the genre of my next project!

Kip Thorne is a pre-eminent theoretical physicist and was the main tech advisor on Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar”. If you like stuff that messes with your head, and your whole understanding of what we know as reality, this is the book for you!

A colleague and frequent collaborator with Stephen Hawking, Theories on time travel, space travel, the beginnings of time…

From Rush's 3 favorite reads in 2023.