Thursday, September 24, 2009

September Blog #6: A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking, published 2005

Did I say I wanted to read some heavier stuff? I got heavier stuff.

Not too heavy, mind you, that is part of the beauty of this book. But Hawking's talk of theories and how partial theories do not necessarily relate to one another and will not necessarily create a universal truth is a bit deeper.

It's a bit funny that immediately after Hawking explains that a universal theory may or may not dictate our human nature, and it may be impossible for us to ever truly understand such a thing because we may not be rational beings, he falls back on Darwin's theory of natural selection to back himself up. What a mouthful.

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