Black Holes - Pickover, Clifford A.
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Now in paper! In this inventive work, Clifford Pickover takes us to the most interesting place in the universe-the heart of a black hole. Adding an entertaining touch of science fiction to the science facts, he creates two scientists of the future who travel to a black hole and perform experiments that answer such intriguing questions as: How close would you have to get to be sucked into a black hole? How would you get back out? Are they really portals to parallel universes and time travel?

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Now in paper! In this inventive work, Clifford Pickover takes us to the most interesting place in the universe-the heart of a black hole. Adding an entertaining touch of science fiction to the science facts, he creates two scientists of the future who travel to a black hole and perform experiments that answer such intriguing questions as: How close would you have to get to be sucked into a black hole? How would you get back out? Are they really portals to parallel universes and time travel?
Autorenporträt
CLIFFORD A. PICKOVER, Ph.D., is the author of numerous popular science and mathematics books, including Keys to Infinity, Chaos in Wonderland, and Mazes for the Mind. He is also the lead columnist for the "Brain Boggler" section in Discover magazine. He is a researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and his work in computer science has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, Omni, and Science News. For his work in computer graphics, he received first prize in the 1990 Beauty of Physics Competition.