Acknowledgments | 5 |
Prologue | 11 |
1. Quarks and Quasars | 15 |
2. Against the Odds | 21 |
3. Galileo's Eyes | 33 |
4. The Einstein Connection | 45 |
5. Black-Hole Encounter | 59 |
6. Exploding Black Holes | 69 |
7. The Final Question | 91 |
8. Bubble or Bang | 105 |
9.The Anthropic Principle | 121 |
Appendix: Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics? : An Inaugural Lecture by Stephen Hawking | 131 |
Index | 151 |