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George and the big bang

George tries to escape a host of problems by going to Switzerland to help his friend Annie's father, Eric, run an experiment exploring the origins of the universe, but faces saboteurs and a mysterious message from George's old nemesis, Reeper, there. Includes scientific essays exploring the latest t...

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Main Author: Hawking, Lucy
Corporate Author: Recorded Books, LLC
Other Authors: Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018, Goode, James (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Science > Experiments > Juvenile fiction.
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) > Juvenile fiction.
Cosmology > Juvenile fiction.
Big bang theory > Juvenile fiction.
Sabotage > Juvenile fiction.
Switzerland > Juvenile fiction.
Adventure fiction > Juvenile.
Children's audiobooks.
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Summary:George tries to escape a host of problems by going to Switzerland to help his friend Annie's father, Eric, run an experiment exploring the origins of the universe, but faces saboteurs and a mysterious message from George's old nemesis, Reeper, there. Includes scientific essays exploring the latest theories on the origin of the universe.
Item Description:Title from disc labels.
Compact discs.
Physical Description:5 sound discs (6 hrs.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience:"Ages 7 and up"--Container.
ISBN:9781470329426
1470329425
Author Notes:Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942. He received a first class honors degree in natural science from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was a theoretical physicist and has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1982 until his death. In 1974, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific organization.

In 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The disease confined him to a wheelchair and reduced his bodily control to the flexing of a finger and voluntary eye movements, but left his mental faculties untouched. He became a leader in exploring gravity and the properties of black holes.

He wrote numerous books including A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Black Holes and Baby Universes, On the Shoulders of Giants, A Briefer History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Brief Answers to the Big Questions. In 1982, he was named a commander of the British Empire. A film about his life, The Theory of Everything, was released in 2014 and was based on his first wife Jane Hawking's book Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. He died on March 14, 2018 at the age of 76.

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