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» 14 more Books Read in 2017 (2,050) Books Read in 2016 (3,873) Five star books (537) Big tags (6) To Read (3) Physics (9) I Can't Finish This Book (187) Unread books (916) No current Talk conversations about this book. Although very good, the title is quite apt in calling it the "Brief" History of Time. The book is barely 200 pages in length, but the content more than makes up for it by being really accessible and enjoyable. The book covers the basics of fundamental cosmology; it considers the Big Bang and all of that along with the Arrow of Time, Time Travel, Wormholes and other things. (  ) Floyd3345 | Jun 15, 2019 |  Historia del tiempo es un libro de divulgación sobre el espacio y el tiempo escrito por uno de los físicos teóricos más prestigiosos de la actualidad. En él Stephen W. Hawking presenta de forma clara y concisa los conceptos fundamentales de la mecánica newtoniana, la teoría de la relatividad, la mecánica cuántica y la cosmología contemporánea, temas todos ellos que, junto a su interés intrínseco, permiten enmarcar el problema de fondo tratado en el libro: el origen del universo y la creación del espacio-tiempo, llegando a asomarse a campos más amplios y aventurados, como la metafísica e incluso la teología, al plantearse la naturaleza de un Dios creador, o más bien garante del sentido del universo Haijavivi | Jun 6, 2019 | I am mostly reading this book to finish off my list of must-read books, and as I've been curious about this book for many years, since Carl Sagan wrote his introduction (as I seeem to recall, about the same time he was the keynote speaker for the joint session in 1992 in DC of the two major astronomical and physics societies in the US). I had not known that we knew that the speed of light was finite so early (1676?) -I thought that had been discovered by Einstein and confirmed by the Michaelson-Moorely experiment. Very nice to see Bell Labs from [b:Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Laboratories in the Information Age|3602937|Three Degrees Above Zero Bell Laboratories in the Information Age|Jeremy Bernstein|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|3645654] mentioned. I didn't finish the book as it seems to repeat a good deal of physics that I have already read years ago, like [b:The Holographic Universe|319014|The Holographic Universe|Michael Talbot|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347752336s/319014.jpg|1842572], which I recall being far more interesting, and am no longer as interested in today. (  ) FourFreedoms | May 17, 2019 | I am mostly reading this book to finish off my list of must-read books, and as I've been curious about this book for many years, since Carl Sagan wrote his introduction (as I seeem to recall, about the same time he was the keynote speaker for the joint session in 1992 in DC of the two major astronomical and physics societies in the US). I had not known that we knew that the speed of light was finite so early (1676?) -I thought that had been discovered by Einstein and confirmed by the Michaelson-Moorely experiment. Very nice to see Bell Labs from [b:Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Laboratories in the Information Age|3602937|Three Degrees Above Zero Bell Laboratories in the Information Age|Jeremy Bernstein|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|3645654] mentioned. I didn't finish the book as it seems to repeat a good deal of physics that I have already read years ago, like [b:The Holographic Universe|319014|The Holographic Universe|Michael Talbot|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347752336s/319014.jpg|1842572], which I recall being far more interesting, and am no longer as interested in today. ( ) ShiraDest | Mar 6, 2019 | I'm rather pleased with myself for having finished this book yet a second time. I'm even more delighted that this go-round I have understood almost 15% of the book, which is more than twice what I was able to wrap my mind around when I first read it two decades ago. I'm not particularly qualified to review or rate it, but I was satisfied with my reading. It was meant to be an exercise of the mind, seeing what I could mentally bench press. It has been rather successful to that extent, so I will give it a relatively arbitrary 4-stars. (  ) Zoes_Human | Oct 28, 2018 |
 Through his cerebral journeys, Mr. Hawking is bravely taking some of the first, though tentative, steps toward quantizing the early universe, and he offers us a provocative glimpse of the work in progress. Is contained inA Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes & A Life in Science ( Set of 2 Books ) by Stephen Hawking Is expanded inIs replied to inA Brief History of Eternity: A Considered Response to Stephen Hawking's a Brief History of Time by Roy E. Peacock Has as a reference guide/companion
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"In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected." "Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, as well as his own recent research, Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the chapters throughout."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)
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