A Brief History of Time
Stephen W. Hawking, 1988
A physicist's guide to the biggest questions—time, black holes, the origin of the universe—written for readers who thought they couldn't do physics.
Stephen W. Hawking
Diagnosed with ALS at 21 and given two years to live, Hawking lived to 76; he wrote A Brief History to help pay for his children's education.
Feels like curiosity, awe and time.
The question a physicist can ask but equations cannot answer.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Books by Stephen W. Hawking
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