文档介绍：B LACK H OLES
WORMHOLES
&TIME M ACHINES
J IM A L -KHALILI
University of Surrey
Institute of Physics Publishing
Bristol and Philadelphia
B LACK H OLES
WORMHOLES
&TIME M ACHINES
About the Author
Jim Al-Khalili was born in 1962 and works as a theoretical
physicist at the University of Surrey in Guildford. He is a
pioneering popularizer of science and is dedicated to
conveying the wonder of science and to demystifying its
frontiers for the general public. He is an active member
of the Public Awareness of Nuclear Science European
committee. His current research is into the properties of
new types of atomic nuclei containing neutron halos. He
obtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from
Surrey in 1989 and, after two years at University College
London, returned to Surrey as a Research Fellow before
being appointed lecturer in 1992. He has since taught
quantum physics, relativity theory, mathematics and
nuclear physics to Surrey undergraduates. He is married
with two young children and lives in Portsmouth in
Hampshire.
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Reprinted with corrections 2000
Reprinted 2001 (twice), 2003
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