Stole from Cory Hulburt. :-)

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.

I love science books

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.

Factual and delightful!

I can't get enough of Stephen Hawking's books. Recommended reading.
Full 5 stars!

Great intro to black holes and more:)

A dated but decent read, an amuse-bouche to "A Brief History of Time."

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...

Covers the basics of theoretical physics, such as the Big Bang , Big Crunch, black holes, bubble theory, and early history of the universe. Interesting stuff. Most of the book is written in layman language with the exception of the last chapter, which was a speech that Hawking gave at Cambridge.

This passage is all about the great scientist Stephen Hawking's life.

I started this book like 5 years ago and only picked it up again today to finish the last three chapters. I don't have much to say about it other than it certainly gave my young mind a lot to think about when I first began it. The wannabe astronomer in me recognizes the wannabe astrophysicist I used to, well, wanna be. Both were invigorated as I read.

This book was an interesting discussion of theoretical physics, focusing on Einstein and Hawking's own contributions to the discipline. So much of theoretical physics, however, is speculative. The science is perfectly valid, but whether it is true or not is another question. To answer this question one must refer to philosophy, history and the question of metaphysics. How old is the universe? Just because we can mathematically predict what conditions would be like if the universe were billions of years old, does that mean it really is billions of years old? What if God created the universe earlier than that? Must we always have a natural explanation for everything? These are the relevant questions.

This is a good book for anyone who would like to be introduced to what theoretical physics - the stuff Hawking's works on - is about.