A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME - Stephen Hawking

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Stephen W. Hawking is most probably one of the most brilliant minds of our time. He is perhaps the world’s most widely known physicist, partially because of people's amazement that a man who is so severely disabled by motor neuron disease can be such a brilliant scientist, but also due to the way he presents his facts about Cosmology to the world.

‘A Brief History of Time’ is a very readable explanation of complicated physics. In this, Stephen Hawking has tried to make the readers understand the origin of the Universe, and the actual physics of the Universe. In the process, he explains many laws of physics, always giving a quick background of how these theories came to be. The explanations are simple and easy to understand. In fact, they are so good that readers with a background in Physics will likely find their understanding of the concepts increase, and others would develop an interest in the world’s oldest, and perhaps the most intriguing, science.

Hawking's writing style makes this book a wonderful experience, with a pretty accessible tone that compels the reader to get absorbed in the book while also expressing his own excitement about the topics. It provides a good mix of historical notes, explanations of the experimental work of science, and also what the implications of those developments are in the big picture for us, as human beings and our understanding of the world around us. An interesting aspect of the book is that there is no mathematics in it whatsoever. The only formula he uses is E = mc2.

This book can be read by absolutely anyone, irrespective of whether you have an interest in cosmology or not. It is full of ideas that will make you think, scientifically as well as about other facts of our life.

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