Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time (Kindle eBook)

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01-23-2021 at 03:52 AM #3

Great deal - time for my kids to read this! In for one.

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01-23-2021 at 05:24 AM #4

Worth reading. Make your jump into physics.

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01-23-2021 at 06:10 AM #5

If humankind did discover a unified theory of the universe, "we would know the mind of God."
Good read, even for 1988.

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01-23-2021 at 08:17 AM #7

Thanks, I used my slow shipping credits to get it

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01-23-2021 at 08:26 AM #8

This book is like Skyrim - who doesn't have at least 2 or 4 copies of it (already) by now

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01-23-2021 at 11:13 AM #10

Quote from Buckeyefan 1 :

If humankind did discover a unified theory of the universe, "we would know the mind of God."
Good read, even for 1988.

He was an atheist. Ironically, Hawking is buried in a church and not a zoo with the rest of his ape ancestors.

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01-23-2021 at 11:54 AM #11

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Thanks, I used my slow shipping credits to get it

Ditto!!

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01-23-2021 at 12:06 PM #12

Be sure to watch "The Theory of Everything" to understand somewhat the early life of Stephen Hawking.

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01-23-2021 at 01:18 PM #13

I really enjoyed this book. Some of it was a stretch for me to understand but still enjoyable.

If, like me, you love learning about physics but don't enjoy the math, I also recommend two books by this author [wikipedia.org].
1. Fear of Physics - a bit old but the laws of physics haven't change much since then
2. The Physics of Star Trek - Great stuff on how, Eisenberg aside, would a transporter work. How would a Warp drive work?

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01-23-2021 at 04:59 PM #14

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He was an atheist. Ironically, Hawking is buried in a church and not a zoo with the rest of his ape ancestors.

Smart people believe in science and facts. Makes sense to me he was an atheist.

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01-23-2021 at 05:16 PM #15

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Smart people believe in science and facts. Makes sense to me he was an atheist.

There's no reason in science so I find the opposite. Dumb people "believe" in science because there's nothing to believe. Science is all about observations, not beliefs.

You see a giant black hole exploding through a giant telescope-- If you see it, then I see it too. What do you "believe" about it? Nothing because there's nothing to believe. It's the fantasy that you create around that observation that makes you "believe" -- e.g. a parallel universe. There's no science behind that, only fairy tales.

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