The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime
- The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime
"The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime" is a book written by Stephen Hawking and George Ellis, published in 1973 by Cambridge University Press.
(The title has no hyphen in "large scale", unlike another book on a similar topic by the same publisher.)
"The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime" is an in-depth 384 page long science book co-written by Stephen Hawking. The principles rely heavily on theoretical physics. Hawking attempts to describe the foundation of space itself and its nature of infinite expansion, mathematically as well as theoretically.
Hawking co-wrote the book while a post doc at Cambridge university. In his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time", he derides "The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime" as "highly technical and quite unreadable," and advises readers to "not" seek it out.
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