STEPHEN HAWKING and LEONARD MLODINOW THE GRAND DESIGN
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The Grand Design ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING A Brief History of Time A Briefer History of Time Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays The Illustrated A Brief History of Time The Universe in a Nutshell FOR CHILDREN George's Secret Key to the Universe(with Lucy Hawking) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (with Lucy Hawking) ALSO BY LEONARD MLODINOW A Briefer History of Time The Drunkard's Walk:How Randomness Rules Our Lives Euclid's Window:The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace Feynman's Rainbow:A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life FOR CHILDREN The Last Dinosaur (with Matt Costello) Titanic Cat (with Matt Costello)
The Grand Design ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING A Brief History of Time A Briefer History of Time Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays The Illustrated A Brief History of Time The Universe in a Nutshell FOR CHILDREN George’s Secret Key to the Universe (with Lucy Hawking) George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt (with Lucy Hawking) ALSO BY LEONARD MLODINOW A Briefer History of Time The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life FOR CHILDREN The Last Dinosaur (with Matt Costello) Titanic Cat (with Matt Costello)
The Grand Design
The Grand Design
The Grand Design Copyright 2010 by Stephen W.Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Original art copyright 2010 by Peter Bollinger All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Bantam Books,an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,a division of Random House,Inc.,New York. Cartoons by Sidney Harris,copyright C Sciencecartoonsplus.com BANTAM BOOKS and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House,Inc. eISBN:978-0-553-90707-0 www.bantamdell.com v3.0
The Grand Design Copyright © 2010 by Stephen W. Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Original art copyright © 2010 by Peter Bollinger All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Cartoons by Sidney Harris, copyright © Sciencecartoonsplus.com BANTAM BOOKS and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. eISBN: 978-0-553-90707-0 www.bantamdell.com v3.0
The Grand Design CONTENTS F·The Mystery of Being 2.The Rule of Law B·What Is Reality: 4.Alternative Histories s.The Theory of Everything 6.Choosing Our Universe ·The Apparent Miracle s·The Grand Design Glosary Acknowledgments Iudex
The Grand Design