The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition

In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientificwriting. It has also become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies. The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since then there have been extraordinary advances in thetechnology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictionsin the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed the wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected. Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his most recent research, for this revised and expanded edition