How Long to Read Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 33 minutes to read Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) by Kip Thorne

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them. 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 becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time. Kip Thorne, along with fellow theorists Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, a cadre of Russians, and earlier scientists such as Oppenheimer, Wheeler and Chandrasekhar, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, leads his readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know? Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has been one of the greatest best-sellers in publishing history. Anyone who struggled with that book will find here a more slowly paced but equally mind-stretching experience, with the added fascination of a rich historical and human component. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

How long is Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)?

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) by Kip Thorne is 624 pages long, and a total of 158,496 words.

This makes it 211% the length of the average book. It also has 194% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 26 minutes to read Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) aloud.

What Reading Level is Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)?

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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