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Loading... A Brief History of Timeby Stephen Hawking
   » 18 more Books Read in 2019 (743) Books Read in 2017 (2,316) Books Read in 2016 (4,215) 1980s (185) Big tags (6) To Read (6) Physics (11) Five star books (1,466) I Can't Finish This Book (184) Unread books (853) No current Talk conversations about this book. A Brief History of Time was written in 1988 and has been obsolete for a while. A good chunk of Hawking's rhetoric is based on the slowing down of the expansion of the universe, which we found out to be wrong in 1998. The opposite has been observed - the universe's expansion is accelerating. But most of the rest of the book is still a high-quality way to intimidate the public who don't have sufficient physics to easily follow what Dr. Hawking says about energy. His frivolous use of electronvolts in a popular book astounds me. (  ) iothemoon | Sep 27, 2023 |  Blew my mind. (  ) Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 | My brain hurts...but in a good way! Adding this to my list of essential non-fiction! ( ) kylecarroll | Jul 13, 2023 | This is not light reading! Packed with information but I didn't find it easy to comprehend. ( ) gianouts | Jul 5, 2023 | Hawking breaks complex modern theoretical physics concepts down enough for the layman to understand it, without bogging them down with too much detail. It is well written, and has a good flow, where the chapters build on each other. While reading, it makes me feel smart and incredibly stupid at the same time, and I love it. ( ) Andjhostet | Jul 4, 2023 | no reviews | add a review
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking's book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin--and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending--or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and "arrows of time," of the big bang and a bigger God--where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation. No library descriptions found. |
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