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| The Universe in a Nutshell / Stephen Hawking : 4 of 5 | |
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1.23.2003
11:53 PM | Link |
 I've read a couple of Stephen Hawking books in the past and found them fascinating, so I was happy to get his newest book for Christmas! This is a gorgeous book - every single page is filled with color photos and illustrations that visualize the extremely difficult subjects of theoretical physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, and so on. Hawking designed the book to have stand-alone chapters, but each topic is so out-there that nothing really is self-contained (I'm really glad I read A Brief History of Time earlier!). The writing is witty and exciting, since Hawking is so good-natured and optimistic about things, but it definitely does not talk down to anyone - some of the topics were so obscure that I just had to read them and let them sink in without really trying to figure them out.Labels: books |
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