How long does it take to read Black Holes and Time Warps?
Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne takes about 11 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 21 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 619 pages, about 170,225 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy is a 1994 popular science book by physicist Kip Thorne. It provides an illustrated overview of the history and development of black hole theory, from its roots in Newtonian mechanics until the early 1990s.
Subjects: Astrophysics, Black holes (Astronomy), Philosophy, Physics, Relativity, Relativity (Physics)
