Considered as one of the best science books ever written or the record-breaking bestseller... I feel this book deserves more... This is not just an account of latest work in theoretical astrophysics or a textbook on Bing Bang or Black holes (as it is commonly referred to)... It is a work, a masterpiece, a comic for the young aspiring physicists... hard to imagine anything better coming up in the near future.
The book is a real time account of things... it is exactly the way you would study something. Your journey starts with history... Aristotle's view of the Universe and by the time you come down to Einstein in 1910s... you would have met the giants - Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Hubble and the less popular Olbers, Kant, Popper.
Once the stage is set for what you want to know about... THE UNIVERSE, Hawking takes you on a rough ride through the yester years and the work in the fields of light and General Relativity... the ride is rough in the sense that it is very teasing and requires an alert mind to make out what he is telling. When you feel you have understood things... Hawking takes a look out of the window and says... "HEY!! there is a whole new thing going on there".. here comes Quantum Mechanics. Trying to draw the consequences from both the fields Hawking leads us into trouble... here he says,"I am trying to set things right"...
And rest is the story how he does it... meanwhile he shows you some tools you need to pick up... Its for you to read and enjoy the rest...
Sprinkled with humor and few incidents from his life... all together they make up a 180pg wonder... and Carl Sagan's Introduction just adds to the fun... a must-read book!!
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17-6-2007
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