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• The New York Times bestseller
• The #1 book on physics
• Foundation Series of popular science books

Stephen Hawking has been called a modern-day Einstein for his scientific work in cosmology and theoretical physics. A professor at the University of Cambridge and a brilliant scientist, he has done more than anyone else to popularise modern science. Together with the American physicist and mathematician Leonard Mlodinow, he created The Shortest History of Time, which was first published in 1988 and was on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times for four years in a row. Over the next 20 years, the book has been published in 10 million copies, translated into 35 languages, rewritten in the spirit of new discoveries, and is still gaining new and new enthusiastic readers today.

Humanity has gathered a wealth of knowledge about space, using super-fast computers and powerful telescopes to see the birth and death of distant stars. But when was the Universe itself born? What is the nature of time and did it exist before the Big Bang? Is it possible for it to run backwards and are dreams of time travel so fantastic?

Explaining the essence of the most complex scientific theories in a clear language using a single formula is a task that only Stephen Hawking can accomplish. But he leaves the main question open...