A Brief History of Time And Other Essays

I've tried to read that book, A Brief History of Time. It's not so brief.

Couldn't make it past the first 10 pages. It should be more brief. I don't understand it.

And then I was like, wait, you know what? They made a movie out of that book, A Brief History of Time. I'll just watch that.

Didn't understand it. I couldn't understand the movie.

Well, you said, actually, he said, well, this there's a great little explanation in Stephen Hawking's brief history of time about this, that the idea that you can't tell whether you're moving or not, demolishes the notion of absolute space.

The other question is, you know, I read a brief history of time a long time ago.

He has a mega best-selling book, A Brief History of Time. Sold 10 million copies. And it brought cosmology from the frontier of physics into people's living rooms.

Well, rumor has it, and actually it wasn't just rumor, I heard it from the person who said it, that the original editor for Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, this was at Cambridge Press, warned him that for every equation he put in that book, the available audience to him would be cut in half.

In the last edition of A Brief History of Time that Stephen added to, there's a great story at the end where he said...

And he says in A Brief History of Time, given what we've just discussed about, you know, the things and the ashes and the smoke and all the information, he said, I should have given them in an urn and burnt them.

Remember when Stephen Hawking's A Short History of Time was a bestseller? And there was a kind of an open joke about whether anyone who was buying it was reading it because like, that is not a, you know, the idea that, you know, some, a standard normally educated human being could read that book and make sense of it is a little bit of a stretch.

I feel like the Stephen Hawking book was for giving, not for reading.

And all I could think of was Steve Hawkins, A Short History of Time.

A Brief History of Time, yeah.

She says why did you choose something that's fun?

And I said this is fun and it is. I don't ask me to explicate about black holes or anything. But I love reading it. It's just so awesome.

They realized the value of that in the 1700s. They knew back then before they even knew how to cure polio, how come we can't get a grip?

He has a mega best-selling book, A Brief History of Time. Sold 10 million copies. And it brought cosmology from the frontier of physics into people's living rooms.

And all I could think of was Steve Hawkins, A Short History of Time.

A Brief History of Time, yeah.

She says why did you choose something that's fun? And I said this is fun and it is. I don't ask me to explicate about black holes or anything. But I love reading it. It's just so awesome.

So meet you, a Brief History of Time. Stephen Hawking, that single-handedly put physics back on the map in pop culture ever since Einstein was a pop culture icon.

Stephen Hawkins theorized that there are tiny black holes all around us.

People kept coming up to me at dinner parties and saying, Margaret, you're studying physics. I bought this book "A Brief History of Time" and I can't get past chapter one. Can you tell me about physics that I can actually understand?

And I think what happens is that people buy one, they can't get past chapter one. And then they feel all physics isn't for me. I just don't have that kind of a mind.

The problem with most books about physics is that they tell you the answers and they focus on the answers but they don't explain the questions and why the questions matter.

people kept coming up to me at dinner parties and saying, my great-year studying physics, I bought this book a brief history of time and I can't get past chapter one.

I think there's a profusion of books now and still even the best are not that readable. No, and I think what happens is that people buy one they can't get through the packet past chapter one and then they feel all physics isn't for me.

People kept coming up to me at dinner parties and saying Margaret you're studying physics. I bought this book a brief history of time and I can't get past chapter one. Can you tell me about physics that I can actually understand?

And I think what happens is that people buy one, they can't get past chapter one. And then they feel all physics isn't for me. I'm just don't have that kind of a mind.

The problem with most books about physics is that they tell you the answers and they focus on the answers but they don't explain the questions and why the questions matter.

Stephen Hawking in the closing passage of his famous book a brief history of time had said that you know we can achieve these results in physics we should be able to glimpse the mind of God

Stephen Hawking in the closing passage of his famous book a brief history of time had said that you know we can achieve these results in physics we should be able to glimpse the mind of God

Funny story. My dad got me two of these books for Christmas. I open them up. My my nine year old sister sitting across from me. I was like, are these for her or something?

I think these are for like kids who don't know about history. And you knew who it was. Well, no, it wasn't about Helen Keller. This was this year. You got you these this year?

It was it was two books. One of them was Stephen Hawking and the other one. I can't remember the other one, but I was like, OK, and I can read and I know who these people are.