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Loading... Stephen Hawking Quest for a Theory of Ev (original 1991; edition 1997)by Kitty Ferguson
Work InformationStephen Hawking: A Quest for a Theory of Everything by Kitty Ferguson (1991)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "This is the story of one of the most remarkable figures of our time -- Professor Stephen Hawking, the cambridge genius who has earned an international reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. When Kitty Ferguson approached Stephen Hawking with the idea of writing a book about him and asked him to help her make certain she understood his theories, he agreed to do so and also supplied her with material about his childhood and life. This is the splendid result. It is not a biography per se. It is rather the story of one man's quest to find the ""Theory of Everything"". In these pages you will encounter a multitude of amazing paradoxes. Beginnings may be endings... Two great scientific theories taken together seem to give us nonsense... Empty space isn't empty... Black holes aren't black... Cruel circumstances can lead to happiness, although fame and success may not... and a man whose appearance inspires shock and pity takes us laughing to where the boundaries of space and time ought to be -- but are not." no reviews | add a review
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Presents the life of the British theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology farther than most in his field, despite the need for a wheelchair and computer in order to travel and communicate. No library descriptions found. |
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