A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

 

About the Author:- Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England. Stephen Hawking's ability to make science understandable and compelling to a lay audience was established with the

publication of his first book, A Brief History of Time, which has sold nearly 10 million copies in 40 languages.

About:- A Brief History of Time

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the sunlight that generates the sunlight that makes life possible. 

The gravity that glues us to an earth that would otherwise send us turning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made whose strength we fundamentally count.

Except for children ( who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us expend much time wondering why personality is the way it is; where the cosmos came from, or where it was always here.

 If time will one day flow backward and effects precede causes; or whether there are maximum limits to what humans can know. 

There are even children, and I have met some of them, who want to know what a black hole looks like; what is the smallest piece of matter. 

Why we remember the past and not the future; how it is, if there was chaos early, that there is, apparently order today; and why there is a universe. 

In our society, it is still customary for parents and teachers to answer most of these questions with a shrug, or with an appeal to vaguely recalled religious precepts. 

Some are uncomfortable with issues like these because they so vividly expose the limitations of human understanding.

But much of philosophy and science has been driven by such inquiries. An increasing number of an adult are willing to ask questions of this sort, and occasionally they get some astonishing answers. 

Equidistant from the atoms and the stars, we are expanding our exploratory horizons to embrace both the very small and the very large.

Hawking is now the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a post once held by Newton and later by P.A.M. Dirac, two celebrated explorers of the very large and the very small. He is their worthy successor. 

This, hawking's first book for the nonspecialist as the book's wide-ranging content is the glimpse it provides into the working of its author's mind. 

In this book are lucid acknowledgments on the frontiers of physics, astronomy, cosmology, and courage. If you want to buy these books please visit kitablovers.com