Bücher von Brian Cox

Schwarze Löcher gehören zu den Topthemen der Astronomie und sind aus der Forschung nicht mehr wegzudenken. Das renommierte Autorenduo Brian Cox und Jeff Forshaw (bereits bei KOSMOS erschienen: "Warum ist E = mc2?", "Mensch und Universum", "Was wiegt das Universum?") erklären gewohnt unaufgeregt, leicht verständlich und wissenschaftlich fundiert, was hinter Schwarzen Löchern steckt und wie sie uns dabei helfen könnten, unseren Platz im Universum zu finden.

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes.Today, across the universe, at the heart of every galaxy, and dotted throughout, mature black holes are creating chaos. And in a quiet part of the universe, the Swift satellite has picked up evidence of a gruesome death caused by one of these dark powers. High energy X-ray flares shooting out from deep within the Draco constellation are thought to be the dying cries of a white dwarf star being ripped apart by the intense tides of a supermassive black hole ? heating it to millions of degrees as it is shredded at the event horizon.They have the power to wipe out any of the universe's other inhabitants, but no one has ever seen a black hole itself die. But 1.8 billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death. Gravitational waves given off as two enormous black holes merge together. And now scientists think that these gravitational waves could be evidence of two black holes connecting to form a wormhole ? a link through space and time. It seems outlandish, but today's physicists are daring to think the unthinkable ? that black holes could connect us to another universe.At their very heart, black holes are also where Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is stretched in almost unimaginable ways, revealing black holes as the key to our understanding of the fundamentals of our universe and perhaps all other universes.Join Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw in exploring our universe's most mysterious inhabitants, how they are formed, why they are essential components of every galaxy, including our own, and what secrets they still hold, waiting to be discovered.

E = mc² ist die berühmteste Formel der Welt. Mit ihr brachte Einstein es auf den Punkt: Energie und Masse sind zwei Seiten derselben Medaille und die Lichtgeschwindigkeit c ist ihr Wechselkurs. Doch warum besteht dieses so einfache Verhältnis? Wie ist Albert Einstein zu diesem Schluss gekommen? Und welche Folgen für das Verständnis des Universums ergeben sich daraus? Brian Cox, Professor für Physik und in England durch seine Sendungen auf BBC sehr bekannt, hat sich zusammen mit seinem Kollegen Jeff Forshaw, Professor für theoretische Physik, die scheinbar einfache Einstein-Gleichung vorgenommen, um sie mit viel Energie ausführlich und verständlich zu erklären.

A voice called my name. It took me three or four times to realize someone or something was calling out to me. I finally realized someone was calling to get my attention and asked, "e;Are you talking to me?"e; He responded and began speaking to me; I could not believe it."e;Can I ask a question?"e; He was waiting for me to ask, He said. Now I am in complete shock. I have now realized I died and now talking with God or Jesus Christ.I was then given three instructions: to learn forgiveness; find out what is causing my anger (I was told it was medical in nature); and to write, talk, preach, teach, a video, a book. I'm like "e;What?"e;I asked if this was God or Jesus whom I was speaking or communicating with. He said, "e;I am who you think I am!"e;God told me to "e;give Him my 100 percent faith, sit back and watch what He can do!"e;