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Superstar physicist Hawking--whose A Brief History of Time (1988) is ensconsed in the Guinness Book of Records for having had the longest bestseller-run in English-language history--returns with 11 essays and one interview, covering matters autobiographical, scientific, and philosophical. The autobiographical pieces share a sketchy, conversational tone and drop a few tasty nuggets: Hawking didn't learn to read until he was eight and proved to be (in the Einstein tradition) a mediocre student; if dropped on a desert island, he would listen to Mozart's Requiem and read Middlemarch. But even so, these pieces keep Hawking's inner life strictly under wraps. Most of the other essays, which tend to repeat themselves, cover the author's major scientific insights: that the universe is ``neither created nor destroyed''; that space/time began 15 billion years ago and is finite but boundless, like the surface of a globe. Hawking cites as his ``most surprising discovery'' the realization that black holes are not self-enclosed but leak particles and radiation: This leads directly to his most recent enthusiasm, ``baby universes,'' generated by black holes, which branch off from our own universe and sometimes return to it. Sometimes the going is thick (``the N=8 theory has twenty-eight spin-1 particles''), but most of Hawking's arguments will be clear to educated laypeople. His weak suit is philosophy, and, indeed, he includes a mild-mannered attack on professional philosophers, many of whom find his discussions of the big questions--what is creation? does God exist?--to be, as he puts it, ``naive and simple-minded.'' No matter: Hawking will be remembered for his physics, not his metaphysics. Not much new, but people feel smarter just by buying a Hawking book. This will sell. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Hawking is quite probably the most admired and recognizable figure in science today. His A Brief History of Time ( LJ 4/15/88) was a surprise best seller that stimulated a public fascination with this man who, although stricken with a debilitating neurological disease, is widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. This new collection of essays and lectures will no doubt attract a large readership, but it is somewhat unbalanced. The biographical pieces are digressive and not particularly enlightening. Most pointless is the concluding piece, an interview in which Hawking expounds upon the eight records he would want if he were shipwrecked on a desert island. The scientific essays are much stronger and offer insight into a variety of cutting-edge issues in contemporary physics, though much of what is presented can be found in Brief History. Readers interested in Hawking's life are better advised to read John Gribbin and Michael White's Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science ( LJ 5/1/92). Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/93.
- Gregg Sapp, Montana State Univ. Libs., Bozeman
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Gregg Sapp, Montana State Univ. Libs., Bozeman
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Hawking's best known book "A Brief History of Time" is one of the classics of it's type, managing to get across the essential elements of some very complex science in a simple manner. Unfortunately this is not in the same league and appears to be a shameless attempt to cash in on the Hawking name by lashing together a collection of old essays and a radio script. There is a LOT of material which will seem very familiar to readers of "A brief history" and a lot of repetition even between the different essays in the book. Very disappointing - lots of recycled science - and anyone looking for an insight into Hawking himself rather than his work would be better to look at John Gribbin's excellent "Stephen Hawking - A Life in Science".
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This particular book by Hawking explores his personal life as well as the physicist side of life. I become interested in how a man like Hawking came to be after reading his "A Brief History of Time." This book answered all of my questions as he goes farther into depth about how he grew up, and lives with ALS. This book is a composite of many essays, so the reader will find that Hawking repeats himself more than twice. This is a good book, but not quite to the standard as his previous book was. I gave a rating of 4 stars because the title of this book was somewhat deceiving, as an aspiring physicist looking for an educational book might choose this one, little realizing that it focuses much on Hawking's life, instead.
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I believe it is hard for a brilliant mind like Stephen to discuss theoretical physics like he does. If we look at the structure of it and the incredibly vast and complicated mathematics that follows this thinking, it is an achievement to present it in such simple way to an audience with enormous lack of knowledge in this area. If you didn't read Brief History Of Time before this book, it might seem very odd to you. This book is second part of an effort to bring some very academic field to an interest of a broad public sphere, which is interested in the principles of universe, but has no possibilities for explorations and readings in this field, because it has become too complicated to understand. In past (maybe some 100 years or more ago) an educated person could follow all the latest scientifical discoveries in the papers (and could mostly understand it). Nowadays even experts in their branches have sometimes troubles in understanding their superior colleagues. Such an attempt from Hawking is therefore very positive.
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a bit boring for a physics student
I have read quite a few books in the area of theoretical physics, astronomy and cosmology, and I found this book was less than I had expected. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. April 2000 von shawn heckman
a bit boring for a physics student
I have read quite a few books in the area of theoretical physics, astronomy and cosmology, and I found this book was less than I had expected. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. April 2000 von shawn heckman
Read Brief History of time first
I really love this book but the true is that is a little heavie so if you are planing to read this book you better have some time to think about it and if you can i recomend you to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Januar 2000 von Mauricio
Sophomore jinx
This book reminded me of Led Zeppelin's "Coda" album, a bunch of B-sides and outtakes. "A Brief History of Time," was more like masterpiece "Led Zeppelin... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Januar 2000 von Terry
Stephen is Awesome
I loved this book. It explains some the hard technical and visual aspects of time and cosmology. Stephen is a great writer and a comological genius! Buy it!
Am 21. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
A complete waste of time - nothing new or insightful here!
Stephen Hawking has made a career out of performing mathematical gymnastics on the two major physics theories of the 20th century - General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Stephen Hawking Phones It In
Fans of A Brief History of Time will be terribly disappointed as they hack their way through this series of incredibly repetitive lectures presented as a series of essays. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Excellent Book
As an undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley I saw Prof. Hawking give the lecture on Black holes and Baby Universes. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. März 1999 veröffentlicht
The 'child's wonder' book.
'Black Holes and Baby Universes' actually provokes more abstract than concrete thought, thus differing it from 'A Brief History of Time', in that it is written in a 'novel' style,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
An excellent precursor to "A Brief History of Time"
Lucasian Professor Stephen W. Hawking once again puts "the big questions" into a much more readily digestable format than the general public would normally have access... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
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