Unveiling The Edge Of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, and Worm Holes

by John Gribbin

An updated look at black holes chronicles their discovery and formation and offers two known ways for humans to build a time machine using the laws of physics. 15,000 first printing.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Physics

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

John R. Gribbin is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists. He also writes science fiction.

Reviews

[Bryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it! You'll like it!: This is my all time favorite popular book written by a real physicist. In my opinion, it's better than Hawking's "Brief History of Time" because it not only explains the pretty well known areas of physics (black holes and such), but goes beyond this into such abstract ideas as wormholes and several interesting ways that nature might just allow time travel. It plays with your imagination the whole way through.

[Ken Dilella · Rating 5 out of 5]

a bit dated (written at the time of the big crunch theory) but other wise an excellent john gribbin book.

[Tim Weakley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Glad this one is done. This is the fourth book by Gribbin that I have read, and the only one I didn't care for. I found it to drag, and head off on tangents. It just didn't make the concepts very engaging to me...which Gribbin's books have always done before.

[Brock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best physics and cosmology book for the non-physicist I have ever read. Does not treat you like you an ididot but also does not make you go open up the college math textbooks, either. Superb. Read it.

[JWG-King Swami · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved this book

[Samar]

لقيت نسخة مترجمة ليه وهقراه
عودة للجنون مع اينشتاين : )

[Aubrey Stapp · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite dull

[Eric Layton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now this was the type of Gribbin book I've come to know and love. While the vast majority of the material in this one was known to me, it's the presentation by the author that made the reading of it so entertaining. There were even a couple things in there I didn't know. Definitely a fun and educational stroll through these pages.