Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide - Hardcover

Pickover, Clifford A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471125806 ISBN 13: 9780471125808

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

BLACK HOLES A TRAVELER'S GUIDE

Clifford Pickover's inventive and entertaining excursion beyond the curves of space and time.

"I've enjoyed Clifford Pickover's earlier books . . . now he has ventured into the exploration of black holes. All would-be tourists are strongly advised to read his traveler's guide." -Arthur C. Clarke.

"Many books have been written about black holes, but none surpass this one in arousing emotions of awe and wonder towards the mysterious structure of the universe." -Martin Gardner.

"Bucky Fuller thought big. Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." -Wired.

"The book is fun, zany, in-your-face, and refreshingly addictive." -Times Higher Education Supplement.

About this title

Review:

Clifford Pickover, an extraordinarily prolific and polymathic research scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, has consistently been one of the most creative writers about computer graphics, scientific visualization, and mathematical models of natural and physical systems. This latest offering is classic Pickover in its wealth of information, ideas, bold speculations and and propositions -- including proposed "hands-on" experiments with black holes -- which just may turn out to be plausible. Recommended.

From the Publisher:

Using a unique imaginative approach, Pickover creates two fictional scientists of the future who travel to a black hole where they perform a series of experiments designed to reveal all of the black hole's intriguing characteristics. Includes such experiments as to see how close an object can get to a black hole without being sucked inside, to demonstrate what happens to an object that does get sucked in and to explore the possibility of traveling through a black hole. Contains a stunning 8-page color insert of images of black holes created by the author who is an award-winning graphic artist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471125806
• ISBN 13: 9780471125808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232