Series Foreword
Introduction
Tmeline
Chapter 1 Destiny's Child: An Auspicious Birth and Eclectic Upbringing
Chapter 2 Scientist in Training: The Oxford Years
Chapter 3 Tragedy and Triumph: Deadly Disease and Dissertation
Chapter 4 Children and Calculations: Family Man and Theoretician
Chapter 5 "Stephen's Changed Everything": Black Holes Aren't Black
Chapter 6 Caltech and Cambridge: Exploring New Horizons
Chapter 7 Physics or Metaphysics?: The "No-Boundary" Proposal
Chapter 8 Challenges and Controversy: An Unexpected Silence and Time's Arrows
Chapter 9 The Best-Selling Book That "No One Read": A Brief History of TIme
Chapter 10 To Boldly Go: Time Travel and Television
Chapter 11 Plays, P-branes, and Polls: Private Lives and Public Pronouncements
Chapter 12 Books and Bets: The Universe in a Nutshell and the End of a Paradox
Epilogue Stephen Hawking: Man Versus Myth
Appendixes:
A: General Relativity and Cosmology
B: The Laws of Thermodynamics and Black Holes
C: Inflationary Cosmology
D: The AdS/CFT Correspondence
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
Vocabulary