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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classicA Brief History of Timeto help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This isdeepscience; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."--Therese Littleton--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.

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ISBN-10: 0553380168
ISBN-13: 978-0553380163
Author: Stephen Hawking
Genre: Science
Publisher: Bantam

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review by CharlesAshbacher. January 11, 2007

A great theoretical physicist shows that he is also a great writer

Universally hailed as the greatest theoretical physicist since Einstein, Dr. Hawking serves as both an intellectual and physical inspiration. His disability - Lou Gehrig's disease- serves to make his every endeavor a slow and tedious affair, and yet his professional output remains very high, both in quality and quantity. This book is no exception. Written at the level of the layperson, it is clear, concise, and through. As the title suggests, he begins with the origin of the universe … more

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review by JSMaresca. November 19, 2003

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A Brief History of Time by Hawking

The author ponders some very deep questions in theoretical and practical physics and the universe. He covers space, time, the expanding universe, uncertainty, black holes and a unifying theory of physics and all matter. Einstein first postulated that matter could neither be created nor destroyed. Ptolemy's model predicts positioning of heavenly bodies. Galileo proved that each body increased speed at the same weight despite it's own weight … more

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review by fatherz. March 27, 2002

A good, if a bit deep, introduction. . .

. . .to the science of cosmology. Please note that I don't fault the depth of the book at all, Dr. Hawking has done his best to remove the mathematics and esoteric theorizing. Nevertheless, unless the reader has a prior basic knowledge of astronomy or cosmology, it's easy to get lost.Dr. Hawking is arguably one of the three greatest physicists of the last 500 years (Newton and Einstein being the others). In this book, he has skillfully attempted to bridge the gap between the world of the highly … more

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