Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of our time, and is famous around the world because he wrote and talked about cosmology - the science of the universe - in a way that people could understand. He had a terrible disease called ALS, and for many years could only move and speak with the help of machines. But this did not stop him working to try and understand our world better. Will people travel in time one day? Where did the universe come from?
The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking (Audiobook, mp3)
Popular scientific literature, Science - Cosmology, Philosophy The Grand Design is a popular-science book written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow in 2010. It argues that invoking God is not necessary to explain the origins of the universe, and that the Big Bang is a consequence of the laws of physics alone.
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the world's most famous physicists--Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time) and Roger Penrose (The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind)--disagree.
Stephen William Hawking, (born 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general.
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Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the
centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes'
Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's
Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose
ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe.
