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The structure moves from a foundational picture of the cosmos to space and time, an expanding universe, and the uncertainty principle. It then addresses elementary particles and natural forces, black holes and their counterintuitive aspects, and the universe’s origin and fate, culminating with time’s arrow and wormholes. The foreword explains the book’s worldwide success, ongoing interest in big questions, and updates based on new theoretical and observational results since 1988.","A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking  \nChapter 1-Our Picture of the Universe  \nChapter 2-Space and Time  \nChapter 3-The Expanding Universe  \nChapter 4-The Uncertainty Principle  \nChapter 5-Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature  \nChapter 6-Black Holes  \nChapter 7-Black Holes Ain't So Black  \nChapter 8-The Origin and Fate of the Universe  \nChapter 9-The Arrow of Time  \nChapter 10-Wormholes and Time Travel  \nChapter 11-The Unification of Physics Chapter 12-Conclusion  \nGlossary  \nAcknowledgments & About The Author  \nFOREWARD  \nI didn’t write a foreword to the original edition of A Brief History of Time. That was done by Carl Sagan. Instead, I wrote a short piece titled “Acknowledgments” in which I was advised to thank everyone. Some of the foundations that had given me support weren’t too pleased to have been mentioned, however, because it led toa great increase in applications.  \nI don’t think anyone, my publishers, my agent, or myself, expected the book to do anything like as well as it did. It was in the London Sunday Times best-seller list for 237 weeks, longer than any other book (apparently, the Bible and Shakespeare aren’t counted) . It has been translated into something like forty languages and has sold about one copy for every 750 men, women, and children in the world. As Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft (a former post-doc of mine) remarked: I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.  \nThe success of A Brief History indicates that there is widespread interest in the big questions like: Where did we come from? 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