Problematic element in chronology - Red Giants

Sergei SOLOVIEV · 29 May 2011, 20:14 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 22:14:39 +0200
Subject: (urth) Problematic element in chronology - Red Giants
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Maybe it's my error, but it was some very similar title mentioned
by Wolfe, I will try to find what it was exactly. More
special books by Hawking appeared earlier, I've read Hawking and
Ellis on black holes in 70-es -
/Hawking/, S.W.; /Ellis/, G.F.R. (/1973/). The Large Scale Structure of 
Space-Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Best

Sergei

Fernando Gouvea wrote:
> Alas, /A Brief History of Time/ was published in 1988, while BotNS was 
> 1980-83 and even /Urth of the New Sun/ was 1987.
>
> Fernando
>
> On 5/29/2011 2:53 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
>> Also, somewhere in the "BotNS" it is mentioned A /Brief History of 
>> Time/  (written by Stephen Hawking, subtitled "From the Big Bang to 
>> Black Holes", but the author and subtitle are
>> not mentioned by Wolfe). One of artefacts of our place and time
>> in Wolfe's Solar cycle. (I would make a list
>> of such curiosities.) It means that Wolfe himself knew
>> the book, and probably knew well the science of black holes
>> of our time. 
>
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