Over the next week and a half I gave up precious hours of sleep without a moment's hesitation.
Within the first pages of the book I was hooked. Intersted, I read the introduction to get a feel for the book before I continued on my search for some interesting reading material. As a bored fifteen year old I was rummaging through my dad's books and came across an interesting looking (non-fiction!) book among hundreds of dusty old books. It make vividly clear why A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.Īfter reading this book Stephen Hawking became a hero in my eyes. Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world-observations that have confirmed many of Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. Stephen Hawking: winner of countless awards and honorary degrees, author of countless books and papers on the fundamental concepts of the universe, accomplished lecturer, physicist, and father of threeĪ Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
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