What does Veeky Forums think of this book?
A Brief History of Time
Jaxson Parker
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Thomas Stewart
he brought up fractions at one point so i quit. fuck math and fuck atheists!
Leo Scott
He's dead
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Also,
>We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God.
He is being punished as we speak.
Adrian Wilson
by which god though?
Eli Myers
Unity, the monad, represented philosophically.
(realistically, the Abrahamic God, though other religions like Taoism speak of him)
Ayden Garcia
lol fucking idiot ain't ya? i knew over simplified shit like that was dum dum even when i was like six years old bro. grow up.
Juan Allen
I remember reading it in High School and really enjoying it. It's been so long so I can't really say anything substantial but I remember him doing a really good job of breaking down those obviously really complex concepts to something a layman could understand. I suppose more scientific minded people might hate him for doing that but I don't think you can fault him too hard considering the impact it's had overall.
Caleb Russell
Thank you for a real answer friend.
Xavier Gonzalez
Weird question, do you believe in a Unitarian or Trinitarian God?
Ethan Allen
Just one.
I'm a Muslim.
Lucas James
Unfortunately, even math and science can’t account for either themselves or why the universe exists.
Ryder Wright
It's an okay read. I read it in high school when I was taking a re-invigorated young adult interest in Veeky Forums topics (I'd had an intervening Veeky Forums phase roughly middle-school years, and slightly shunned sci-topics around this time for peer acceptance). Then during high school I decided fuck that I'll be my own person and do what I like, so I took back up with general interest in science.
if one accepts that light speed is a finite limit, then the notion of a light cone made sense. On the other hand, I seem to remember some brief analogy in which a two-dimensional "animal" is supposed to be impossible because its body would be split in twain by its gastrointestinal tract (as if one couldn't imagine a medium of "sticky stuff" of whatever sort making the two halves stick together, just for general speculation). Of course the book is dated and I also don't remember much about details, just the broad strokes which are now well-known among the literate and in popular culture.
Around this period of my education, I also read "the charm of strange quarks", then the popular text of choice on standard model particle physics. I also succeeded to beg off from some language class or something to go downstairs and listen to a graduate student describe to us kids how she'd just worked at the neutrino laboratory at the south pole, that was really cool. Such was my milleu, and this is about where my education in physics ends. I later completed a math degree (my true love and competence), and never took a college level physics course involving calculus.
Jeremiah Torres
Fuck off. I hope this is bait.
Andrew Roberts
Explains a lot.
Luke Sullivan
He just died last night, user...
Isaiah Allen
not brief enough
Anthony Ward
F
Christian Miller
Stephen Hawking was a misogynist who mansplained science to women like he thought they didn’t understand it
Alexander Ross
Wouldn't mind reading it sometime but I bet I wouldn't understand much of it.
Ian Garcia
Kudos to the guy, they said he would never reach the age he did ;_;
Julian Carter
Poor imitation of Timaeus. Don't waste your time.
Jacob Howard
Well-written and accessible, without dumbing down much.
I think physicists don't like the lack of mathematics in it, since that's so fundamental to actually understanding the stuff he's talking about. But like he says in the introduction, people are scared by maths so he avoided it as much as possible. Better for people to read it and understand 10% than get bamboozled and understand 0%.