In particular the introduction of sometimes contradictory models explain how physics works the evolution of ideas.

The choice of topics is well balanced and gives you an interesting introduction into the modern view of our universe. I really do like the idea to address such an exciting subject to non mathematicians. The book is considered by many to be an “unread bestseller”, which is a book many people own but few have finished. In addition to Hawking’s abstinence from equations, the book also simplifies matters by means of illustrations throughout the text, depicting complex models and diagrams. The author notes that an editor warned him that for every equation in the book the readership would be halved, hence it includes only a single equation: E = mc². Its main goal is to give an overview of the subject but, unusual for a popular science book, it also attempts to explain some complex mathematics. A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and super-string theory, to the nonspecialist reader. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected.' 'Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, as well as his own recent research, Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the chapters throughout.The movie about Stephen Hawking’s ideas from his book titled the same and abut his life. But the intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. Summary: 'In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide.

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