R.I.P. Stephen Hawking

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I'm interested in buying a copy of 'a brief history of time' but I read that it is difficult to finish. Has anyone read it?
    I've always been fascinated by the universe but physics is too complex for me.
    Tried it once and gave up.  Too left brained and abstract for the way my brain works (or maybe it's just left-brained laziness).
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  • PJWGIII
    PJWGIII Chicago, IL Posts: 811
    As a person who has lost a family member to this horrible disease, his story is a huge inspiration to me.

    Looks like we all moved up one spot in the "Smartest People In The World" rankings...
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  • rgambs
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    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I'm interested in buying a copy of 'a brief history of time' but I read that it is difficult to finish. Has anyone read it?
    I've always been fascinated by the universe but physics is too complex for me.
    It's pop physics.  It's not technical at all, but the very concepts of quantum mechanics require you to bend your mind in ways that some people have trouble with.
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  • HesCalledDyer
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    rgambs said:
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I'm interested in buying a copy of 'a brief history of time' but I read that it is difficult to finish. Has anyone read it?
    I've always been fascinated by the universe but physics is too complex for me.
    It's pop physics.  It's not technical at all, but the very concepts of quantum mechanics require you to bend your mind in ways that some people have trouble with.
    That's a good way of putting it.  I read most of Black Holes and Baby Universes back in high school when it was first published.  I was a math person but oddly, physics was never my forte.  But yeah if you can wrap you mind around the general concepts, it's not an extremely difficult read. But if you have trouble imagining the abstract, it would prove to be a tough task.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Cool, thanks for the info.
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  • PureandEasy
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    PJWGIII said:
    As a person who has lost a family member to this horrible disease, his story is a huge inspiration to me.

    Looks like we all moved up one spot in the "Smartest People In The World" rankings...
    My condolences to your family.

    I actually got a little creeped out in a weird way, it kind of scares me a little thinking of living in a world without Stephen Hawking.  I'm totally serious.  
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