The universe in a nutshell

Chapter 1 A Brief History of Relativity: How Einstein laid the foundations of the two fundamental theories of the twentieth century: general relativity and quantum theory 3 --

Chapter 2 Shape of Time: Einstein's general relativity gives time a shape. How this can be reconciled with quantum theory 29 --

Chapter 3 Universe in a Nutshell: The universe has multiple histories, each of which is determined by a tiny nut 67 --

Chapter 4 Predicting the Future: How the loss of information in black holes may reduce our ability to predict the future 101 --

Chapter 5 Protecting the Past: Is time travel possible? Could an advanced civilization go back and change the past? 131 --

Chapter 6 Our Future? Star Trek or Not? How biological and electronic life will go on developing in complexity at an ever increasing rate 155 --

Chapter 7 Brane New World: Do we live on a brane or are we just holograms? 173.