Wednesday, October 7, 2009

October Blog #1: A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking, published 2005

I never thought I would ever enjoy reading about the theory of relativity. Is it possible? Stephen Hawking thinks so.

Hawking makes the insane sensible with a bluntness that can only come from someone who knows he is slightly more intelligent than the average person. And by slightly more intelligent, I mean a lot more intelligent.

I personally have never stopped to think about how my perception of a ping pong ball on a train is entirely different from the person hitting the ping pong ball. If this is a somewhat stripped down version of "A Brief History of Time," then I dread to think how tedious that book might be.

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