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Stephen Hawking's Universe
by
David Filkin
Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Now, in everyday language, Stephen Hawking’s Universe reveals step-by-step how we can all share his understanding of the cosmos, and our own place within it. Stargazing has never been the same since cosmologists discovered that galaxies are moving away from each other at an extraordinary sp
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(first published 1997)
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This was a good layman's approach to astronomy and what we actually know and what we are just guessing about. It was fascinating and even though it was dumbed down as much as possible, towards the end it was still a little over my head. Very little to do with Stephen Hawking but a great book about the universe.
This book sets out to be the "Stephen Hakwing for Dummies." The first few pages promise that this is Hawking's theory "explained in everyday language." Really, this means that they have dumbed down Hawking's uber genius ideas so that other lesser geniuses can comprehend them. The result is this: overcomplicated theories explained in condesned (yet still somehow dense) language spaced out in little chunks on pages with a LOT of white space, combined with goofy pictures that are enormous and remin...more
This is a fabulous bok. It explains the most complex theories and ideas presented by modern physics using language that the average reader can comprehend. If you thought you could never understand Relativity and Qauntum Mehchanics, Think again!
Loved it! The big bang, black holes, white dwarfs, time, life in the universe, and much more you didn't even know existed. All easy to understand.
A nice place to start if you are a person that knows next to nothing about astronomy and cosmology (like me!).
Really liked the basic explanations but felt the author fabricated too much religious/political connection to science.
For all science nerds out there - here is something I could understand and it has lots of pictures. Hawking can explain something so complex and make it meaningful. I kept thinking, "Oh - so that's why."
Mar 07, 2008
Windfield
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Pullman fans
I great read before the Golden Compass, it tells about dark matter and the stranger things in the universe like the multi dimension theory and the sort..
It's the companion to a television special I never saw, but it's got pictures! I like looking at pictures.
Read it a long time ago... From what I remember, it was my first intro. to dark matter.
Bought for my Old Man for Christmas, but (shh) it's really for me.
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Dec 07, 2009 06:57pm