Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
by Stephen W. Hawking
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I bought this book in October of 1998. I was seventeen, and a wicked nerd.
Stephen Hawking is a brilliant scientist, but it's his ability to take extraordinarily complicated astrophysics and boil them down into something a borderline-illeterate seventeen year old can read - and understand - that makes him one-in-a-billion.
I think you should read A Brief History of Time before you read this, but it's a great book.
Stephen Hawking is a brilliant scientist, but it's his ability to take extraordinarily complicated astrophysics and boil them down into something a borderline-illeterate seventeen year old can read - and understand - that makes him one-in-a-billion.
I think you should read A Brief History of Time before you read this, but it's a great book.
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I love that Stephen Hawking as a writer is not arrogant so as to propogate the theory of evolution or godless existence. In fact, he frequently uses the word creation, with a certain reverence.
I also love that he has taken astro physics, a subject which potentially an elitist minority group of humans on this planet might grasp, and made it the rightful business of all humans by describing it so simply.
I also love that he has taken astro physics, a subject which potentially an elitist minority group of humans on this planet might grasp, and made it the rightful business of all humans by describing it so simply.
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Read in January, 1998
have forgotten the content but it was during the time when i like reading scientific book and articles. i couldn't get the copy of his other work "Brief History of Time" instead I get this one hoping it will be "easier" hehehehe. i wonder where did i keep it?
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Read in October, 1997
recommends it for:
Those interested in the nature of the universe
It's been a while since I read this one. Most essays were accessible as I recall. Some were a challenge. A good book, but I preferred his earlier work, A Brief History of Time.
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Didn't flow like Brief History of Time and wasn't as good. But some very interesting essays that he writes for a laymen to understand.
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A fascinating mind reveals startling insights into the universe in a way most non-scientific readers will understand.
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makes me wish I'd been a physics major, or a genius, so I could better understand the concepts presented within
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Read in January, 2006
I try to read a bit of Hawking every now and again to remind myself of how much I have to learn...
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For some reason I like this book. I get the feeling I shouldn't but I do.
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Read in January, 2001
It was pretty obvious with this one that Dr. Hawking needs money, badly.
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