The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe |
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Stephen W. Hawking
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Pages: 136 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1597775088
Pub: Phoenix Books
Pub date: 2006-02-28
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 219990
Reader Reviews:
A Theory On How to Recycled your previous books ! (1/1 people found this helpful)
Very disappointed in this book as it is extracts from previous books. I have sent it back I am that disappointed !
Hawking has disowned this book (42/42 people found this helpful)
Stephen Hawking's home page states that he hasn't endorsed this book and that "a complaint was made to the Federal Trade Commission in the US in the hope that they would prevent the publication". The site urges people "not to purchase this book in the belief that Professor Hawking was involved in its creation."
hawking...decipherable at last (17/23 people found this helpful)
i must admit that when i was first introduced to stephen hawking's books i did regard them as far too heavy. but when i came across this, and bought it, i realised truly how amazing he is at putting forward complex concepts in an entirely understandable way. it's almost like reading a normal novel as bed-time reading!
clearly the grey matter inside the book is extensive, but i would recommend it to anyone hoping to gain more of an insight into our complex universe without passing out.
God bless prof. stephen hawking!
Sloppy science and out of date when published (38/54 people found this helpful)
This book is pretty out of date. It yaks on and on about "closed" and "open" universes, and speculates on which. We know now that the universe isn't slowing down - it's accelerating away. Something completely unexpected and radical. The greatest discovery in science since Hubble. But not a word in the book - because the book is old material rehashed for a quick sale. This is then compounded by sloppy science - e.g. Hawking talks about rockets going at 25,000 mph to escape Earth's gravity. Rockets don't go at this speed - this is the escape energy for a ballistic object, not a powered object like a rocket. Shame on Hawking for being so sloppy, shame on the publishers for peddling out-of-date speculative writing on us as up-to-date science.
The answer is 42. (14/18 people found this helpful)
Fascinating, but extremely brief. At only 167 pages, I read the
book, cover to conver in less than 2 hours. I can't say I'm
dissapointed, but I'd have liked a little more at this price.
Content focusses on the successive models and theories that
science has employed to discover the inner workings of the world
around us. Including much of Hawkings on work on black holes,
theories on the expansion and contraction of the universe, and
the 'direction' of time.
A little more content would easily have cranked this up to 5 star
material. I'm giving it 4 starts only becuase it's a little short.
Good stuff!
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