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The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking,

Leonard Mlodinow

Start date: January 1, 2011

Finish date: January 31, 2011

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Sep 02, 2014 Bob Finch rated it liked it

Shelves: science, philosophy

The first half of the book was reasonably well presented, albeit very brief (most non-specialists would benefit from a lot more more background), but the remainder left me wanting. This is not a book for scientists, and unless the reader is willing to accept all that is said at face value, trying to find supporting information within these pages is largely futile (the motivated reader might search for such support elsewhere). And the punch line, that M-Theory (undefined) may answer all questions ...more

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Sep 24, 2010 Mohammed alkindy rated it liked it

somehow disappointed as no new staff as i was expecting but one surprise, to see Hawking going from being a scientist to being more closely of being an atheist!. Almost confirming the deterministic concept of natural laws is sad for me. knowingly that the most fearful of mankind are those who are truly to be called scientist. multi universe is not a challenge to Islam as a religion. on contrary religion does not get into conflict with such concept in Islam. what surprised me is that if the robot ...more

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Jul 03, 2012 GONZA rated it liked it · review of another edition

A parte il solito riassunto di tutte le teorie scientifiche dall'inizio ad oggi, non mi è molto chiaro come l'eventuale scoperta di una teoria M che unifica tutte le principali leggi e forze della fisica porti automaticamente alla scomparsa di Dio, voglio dire magari chi ci crede non lo faceva per la poca fede nell'elettromagnetismo ma per soddisfare altri tipi di bisogni, comunque tra me ed Hawking non sono certo io il genio, quindi mi tengo le mie perlessità... ...more

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May 27, 2015 Daniel rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, science

very good book for breaking the, difficult to understand, subject of quantum physics down into more manageable pieces and using that to theorize about the beginning of time at we know it.

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