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By: Leonard MlodinoweBook Publisher: Random House
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Reader Review: Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark book in scientific popular writing. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts. A Briefer History of Time is Professor Hawking’s response. In this book are lucid revelations on the frontiers of physics, astronomy, and cosmology. This is also a book about God...or perhaps about the absence of God. The word God fills these pages. Hawking embarks on a intellectual journey to answer Einstein's famous question about whether God had any choice in creating the universe. Finally, this book is actually updated with respect to the latest theoretical and observational results. For example, this book describes recent progress that's been made in finding a complete unified theory of all the forces of physics and describes the progress made in string theory. As a bonus, colorful graphics are an excellent addition and short, enticing chapter titles, like "Newton's Universe", "Wormholes and Time Travel", and "Quantum Gravity", quickly draw the reader into what the authors have to offer. In conclusion, this book is a reorganized version of a science classic that is now more accessible, more concise, better illustrated, and updated with the latest research. It is not to be missed.
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The science classic made more accessible
• More concise • Illustrated
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts—the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe. A Briefer History of Time is Professor Hawking’s response.
Although “briefer,” this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawking’s earlier work. A Briefer History of Time both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the field—from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make A Briefer History of Time an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.
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| Release Date: 12-18-2007 | |
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A Briefer History of Time
Chapter One
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Thinking About the Universe
WE LIVE IN A STRANGE AND wonderful universe. Its age, size, violence, and beauty require extraordinary imagination to appreciate. The place we humans hold within this vast cosmos can seem pretty insignificant. And so we try to make sense of it all and to see how we fit in. Some decades ago, a well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant turtle." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the turtle standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
Most people nowadays would find the picture of our universe as an infinite tower of turtles rather ridiculous. But why should we think we know better? Forget for a minute what you know-or think you know-about space. Then gaze upward at the night sky. What would you make of all those points of light? Are they tiny fires? It can be hard to imagine what they really are, for what they really are is far beyond our ordinary experience. If you are a regular stargazer, you have probably seen an elusive light hovering near the horizon at twilight. It is a planet, Mercury, but it is nothing like our own planet. A day on Mercury lasts for two-thirds of the planet's year. Its surfa
Title: A Briefer History of Time June 21, 2012 Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark book in scientific popular writing. But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts. A Briefer History of Time is Professor Hawking’s response.
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In this book are lucid revelations on the frontiers of physics, astronomy, and cosmology. This is also a book about God...or perhaps about the absence of God. The word God fills these pages. Hawking embarks on a intellectual journey to answer Einstein's famous question about whether God had any choice in creating the universe.
Finally, this book is actually updated with respect to the latest theoretical and observational results. For example, this book describes recent progress that's been made in finding a complete unified theory of all the forces of physics and describes the progress made in string theory.
As a bonus, colorful graphics are an excellent addition and short, enticing chapter titles, like "Newton's Universe", "Wormholes and Time Travel", and "Quantum Gravity", quickly draw the reader into what the authors have to offer.
In conclusion, this book is a reorganized version of a science classic that is now more accessible, more concise, better illustrated, and updated with the latest research. It is not to be missed.
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