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Stephen Hawking's Universe
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Here is an intimate glimpse of the greatest scientist of our day, the brilliant physicist confined to a wheelchair whose A Brief History of Time has become the first worldwide scientific bestseller of the century. The story of Stephen Hawking's relentless quest for the secret of the origins of the universe will change forever the way you look at the stars . . . and your place among them.
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1,1984
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160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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June 1, 1989 by Avon
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9780380707638
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0380707632
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English
About the author
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John Irvan Boslough was born June 18, 1942, in Charlotte, N.C., and later moved with his family to Denver. He graduated from East High School and earned a history of science degree at Princeton University. He worked as a logger, crab fisherman and construction worker in Alaska for two years.
He was editor of the Mountain Mail newspaper in Salida and worked at The Associated Press before joining The Post in 1974, where he worked until 1978. Part of his time with The Post he worked at the paper's Washington, D.C., bureau.
He married Susan Raehn on Sept. 23, 1989.
Boslough loved science and covered the subject for The Denver Post and for U.S. News and World Report.
His Stephen Hawking book, “Beyond the Black Hole — Stephen Hawking's Universe,” was translated into 10 languages and has been used in high school and college science classes, said his brother, Jim Boslough of Billings, Mont.
With astrophysicist John C. Mather, Boslough co-wrote two books, one on cosmology and another about a scientific journey back to the dawn of the universe.
He was editor of the Mountain Mail newspaper in Salida and worked at The Associated Press before joining The Post in 1974, where he worked until 1978. Part of his time with The Post he worked at the paper's Washington, D.C., bureau.
He married Susan Raehn on Sept. 23, 1989.
Boslough loved science and covered the subject for The Denver Post and for U.S. News and World Report.
His Stephen Hawking book, “Beyond the Black Hole — Stephen Hawking's Universe,” was translated into 10 languages and has been used in high school and college science classes, said his brother, Jim Boslough of Billings, Mont.
With astrophysicist John C. Mather, Boslough co-wrote two books, one on cosmology and another about a scientific journey back to the dawn of the universe.
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I've always be fascinated with Stephen Hawking, for everything that he has overcome and for all that he has achieved, which would be remarkable in and of itself. While is book, a brief history of the universe looks interesting, it's size I feel is a bit daunting. So I thought this would be a good intro book, and it was very well written by John Boslough. In such a short book he shows not only many of Stephen's early work, but showed a bit of the man behind the theories, including little stories of his sense of humor.
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A succinct of the scientific expertise of few of the brightest scientific minds of the human civilization, giving us the opportunity for a passionate glimpse into the greatest cosmological mysteries orbiting around the ever increasing conundrums emerging out of the vastness of the universe – How it was created? What triggered the initiation? What followed? And how it shall end?
All scientific approaches ceases functioning as science delves deeper into the cosmic. This scientific paralysis leads to the beginning of religious, mystical and para psychological speculations. Science and religious faith has always been the adversaries of each other, each contradicting and demeaning the conjectures of the other with a great vehemence.
Science and mysticism as what I feel should be complementary to each other, for the oldest outpouring of the human mind is the ideas and beliefs of the Eastern mysticism. Science is still being naive in not realizing that understanding Eastern mysticism might gain them with an insight into the cosmological reality.
All scientific approaches ceases functioning as science delves deeper into the cosmic. This scientific paralysis leads to the beginning of religious, mystical and para psychological speculations. Science and religious faith has always been the adversaries of each other, each contradicting and demeaning the conjectures of the other with a great vehemence.
Science and mysticism as what I feel should be complementary to each other, for the oldest outpouring of the human mind is the ideas and beliefs of the Eastern mysticism. Science is still being naive in not realizing that understanding Eastern mysticism might gain them with an insight into the cosmological reality.
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Factual and delightful!
I can't get enough of Stephen Hawking's books. Recommended reading.
Full 5 stars!
I can't get enough of Stephen Hawking's books. Recommended reading.
Full 5 stars!
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Great intro to black holes and more:)
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A dated but decent read, an amuse-bouche to "A Brief History of Time."
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Watered down and redundant rehash of the stuff covered much more entertainingly and more thoroughly by Hawkings himself in "A Brief History of Time" - don't waste your time with this one - read Hawkings' book...
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