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An updated look at black holes chronicles their discovery and formation and offers two known ways for humans to build a time machine using the laws of physics.

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John Gribbin's book is accessible, lucid and fun, while being no less brilliant than Hawking's book ... reading Gribbin on the subject [of astrophysics] makes this reviewer feel like a child allowed to stay up late. John Wilkes, Los Angeles Times Something else again ... Gribbin is having fun.... A book that rejoices in paradoxes and delights in reporting that nothing bizarre -- baby universes, bubble universes, universe-sized black holes, energy extraction and time travel through wormholes -- is denied by the laws of physics. Publishers Weekly Gribbin writes entertainingly and makes difficult ideas sound simple. Michael Rowan-Robinson, Times Educational Supplement Fascinating ... Gribbin's thought-provoking book is written in the smooth, easy style of professional science journalism.... [It gives] the reader the secure feeling of being in the hands of a competent guide through perplexing territory. H.C. von Baeyer, New York Times Book Review

&quot; John Gribbin's book is accessible, lucid and fun, while being no less brilliant than Hawking's book ... reading Gribbin on the subject [of astrophysics] makes this reviewer feel like a child allowed to stay up late.&quot; <br>John Wilkes, <br>Los Angeles Times <br>&quot; Something else again ... Gribbin is having fun.... A book that rejoices in paradoxes and delights in reporting that nothing bizarre -- baby universes, bubble universes, universe-sized black holes, energy extraction and time travel through wormholes -- is denied by the laws of physics.&quot; <br>Publishers Weekly <br>&quot; Gribbin writes entertainingly and makes difficult ideas sound simple.&quot; <br>Michael Rowan-Robinson, <br>Times Educational Supplement <br>&quot; Fascinating ... Gribbin's thought-provoking book is written in the smooth, easy style of professional science journalism.... [It gives] the reader the secure feeling of being in the hands of a competent guide through perplexing territory.&quot; <br>H.C. von Baeyer, <br>New York Times Book Review

John Gribbin's book is accessible, lucid and fun, while being no less brilliant than Hawking's book ... reading Gribbin on the subject [of astrophysics] makes this reviewer feel like a child allowed to stay up late. <br><br>John Wilkes, <br><br>Los Angeles Times<br><br> Something else again ... Gribbin is having fun.... A book that rejoices in paradoxes and delights in reporting that nothing bizarre -- baby universes, bubble universes, universe-sized black holes, energy extraction and time travel through wormholes -- is denied by the laws of physics. <br><br>Publishers Weekly<br><br> Gribbin writes entertainingly and makes difficult ideas sound simple. <br><br>Michael Rowan-Robinson, <br><br>Times Educational Supplement<br><br> Fascinating ... Gribbin's thought-provoking book is written in the smooth, easy style of professional science journalism.... [It gives] the reader the secure feeling of being in the hands of a competent guide through perplexing territory. <br><br>H.C. von Baeyer, <br><br>New York Times Book Review

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