The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
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With a title inspired as much by Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker series as Einstein, The Theory of Everything delivers nearly as much as it promises. Transcribed from Stephen Hawking’s Cambridge Lectures, the slim volume may not present a single theory unifying gravity with the additional fundamental forces, but it does carefully clarify the state of late 20th-century physics with the fantastic scientist’s characteristic humility and charm. Explicitly shunning math, Hawking clarifies the fruits of 100 years of heavy thinking with descriptions that are simple but never condescending–he compares the settling of the newborn universe into symmetry to the formation of ice crystals in a glass of water, for example. While he explores his own work (especially when language about black holes), he also discusses the vital milestones achieved by others like Richard Feynman. Though occasionally an impenetrably obscure axiom does slip by, the reader will find the bulk of the text enlightening and engaging. The material, from the scenery of time to the possibility that the universe has no beginning or end, is rich and deep and inevitably ignites metaphysical thinking. After all, Hawking is legendary for his “we would know the mind of God” remark, which ends the final address herein. –Rob Lightner
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Why? Because this book, as well as Universe in a Nutshell, and A Briefer History of Time, are nothing more than slightly modified versions of A Brief History of Time. Hawking provides nothing additional to what he’s already published so don’t waste your time & money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Locked as he is in his encyclopedia of cosmology, Stephen Hawking, spends too much of the book positing the question: “Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” The answer he proposes is “just because.” Hawking is obsessed with knowing the mind of God which he seems to equate with THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. Yes, he may make it in uniting quantum uncertainty with gravity but knowing all the physical laws may not make it any simpler for man to live or survive. I would clarify this small treatise on the origin and fate of the Universe as his attempt to make a universe with soul. He is much like his idol Einstein who couldn’t accept a universe appearing out of the random throw of the dice.
Although Hawking complements Wittgenstein as being the most legendary philosopher of the 20th Century, he pays no heed to Ludwig’s admonition to stick to the analysis of language. Thus he fashions the analogy of a universe like the surface of a world globe-with two additional dimensions-to suggest that initial boundary conditions are not required. Hawking takes his own metaphor factually. Therefore, there is no need for any agency to have made such a universe.
If Hawking’s no boundary universe is right then he says the creator would have had small freedom or no choice in establishing the initial conditions. He paints the creator in the image of Hawking-a God who learned a Theory of Everything. He may as well have concluded that the universe with all its TOEs or GUTs is a self designed entity. Still the book is excellent material for sci-fi writers who would clarify that imaginary numbers and realities are the excellent stuff out of which the universe is constructed and reality may only be virtual reality.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I establish this book to be ok – a bit out of date but usually understandable. I prefered a book from M. R. Franks titled The Universe and Multiple Reality.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
THIS BOOK MAKES EVERYTHING I HAVE ALWAYS WOUNDERED ABOUT REASONABLY EASY TO UNDERSTAND.IT ALMOST READS LIKE A MYSTERY WHERE THE READER GETSB AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER TO FIND OUT “WHO DONE IT.”I LEARNED MORE FROM THIS BOOK THAN FROM ALL OF MY TIME IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.CLEARLY THIS IS PROFFESSOR HAWKINGS MASTER WORK.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I am really dessapointed with the service offering by Amazon. I placed my order on December 26, 2009. Although the estimated date was January 8, 2010 still I havent received the books. I thought Amazon is trustworthy but they are not. This will be my first and last order placement on Amazon.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5