A Brief History of Time

Author: Dr. Stephen Hawking 

Genre: Scientific Non-Fiction  

Traits: General Relativity, Science, Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Gravity 

Language: English 

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One of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time, legacies like  Stephen William Hawking come only once in a century. Born in Oxford in 1942, exactly 300 years after Galileo's demise, Hawking went on to pursue his graduate studies at Cambridge. When only twenty he was, he became diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or more commonly known in the UK as Motor Neurone Disease. Hawking worked primarily in the field of general relativity and particularly on the physics of black holes, primarily which this book is an introduction to. His ideas about our universe were inspired. He held Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Cambridge University and was included as a Companion of Honour. 

The brilliant mind of Stephen Hawking left us on 14.03.2018 (also known as Pi-Day). He has forever only tried to link the two biggest theories of physics: General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, which he would call by 'the quantum theory of gravity.' His search for this never ended, and even after his death his followers are in search of this theory which will answer the biggest questions of physics and reasoning. However, he briefly and very aptly so, rejuvenated many young minds with the ideals of the universe in this book. 

He tried to explain the working of the universe in the simplest of physics terms in this widely celebrated book: A Brief History of Time. The book made aware of complex terms as the CPT similarities, the four forces of nature and how gravitational force is the weirdest of them all, in the simplest of terms that might be possible. Hawking tried to elaborate the complexities of natural physics and time and how they impair with the recent discoveries in Quantum physics, and what this means for us all to grasp a knowing of the working of the universe. The very basic ways in which he established the three views of time as it progresses and how it effects/affects entropy is tremendously beautiful and at the same time, easy to understand. Overall, the book intended to give nature to the very basic question of physics: How does the universe work? 

It is truly unbelievable that this man of spectacular talent and promicing contributions didn't own a Nobel Prize in Physics. Perhaps, it is because his ideas remained void of a solid experimental proof, or were experimentally impossible (except for Black Holes' existence, obviously). He did talk a bit or two about Hawking Radiation as well, which of course, was phenomenally explained too! 

A must read for anyone even remotely an admirer of Physics, in general! 

R/W Rating: 8.9/10

Goodreads rating: 4.21/5

(As on date of publishing of post)

Reviewed by: Dibyendu Maji

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