Black Holes and Time Warps - Kip S. Thorne
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy is a popular science book by physicist Kip S. Thorne, published in 1994. It provides an illustrated overview of the history and development of black hole theory, from its roots in Newtonian mechanics until the early 1990s. The book covers topics such as special and general relativity, gravitational waves, quantum gravity, wormholes, time machines, and the nature of singularities. Kip S. Thorne is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech. He is one of the leading experts on black holes and gravitational physics, and has made many ...