Izrāvu cauri divās dienās. Viegli lasījās, lappuses ātri gāja uz priekšu, jo sastopamas arī bildes un lapas likās tādas kā biezākas par standartu :)Saturiskā ziņā interesanta lasāmviela par vienu no mūsdienu ģēnijiem, par to, kā viņš dzīvojis, kā sācis interesēties par zinātni un kā turpinājis. B...
Okay, I have a confession. I didn't finish it. I was listening to it on my tablet, while I do other things, and I listened to about ¾ of it while working on a Halloween costume that was just hand sewing and cutting. But the volume doesn't go loud enough to hear the guy's voice over my normal a...
Listened to this VERY brief autobiography via Audio book.I must admit that I thought this book would be more of a personal account of Stephen's life with less Blackhole and Cosmology theory. I realise after listening to this book, that I do not know that much about our world and universe and it w...
Things I learnt from Stephen Hawking11 October 2014tEver since I took up physics in year 11 I have had a love affair with the subject, which is odd since I went on to study an arts/law degree (but that probably had something to do with the fact that I would not have had the staying power to pour ...
This book can be very interesting for someone who loves Star Trek as well as Physics. On several occasions episode titles are referenced to, and it could be interesting to pay attention to the matter dealt for that episode while also viewing it. These can also be directly navigated from within th...
الكتاب بيغطي النظريات البشرية عن نشأة الكون و شكله و نهايته بشكل مبسط.على الرغم من إنه بيتعرض لنظريات ال Quantum mechanics, Relativity, Thermodynamics, Big bang, black holes... إلا إن طريقة الكاتب جد مبسطة و التشبيهات التي يستخدمها بسيطة في أغلب الأحيان.المحاضرات الأولى في الكتاب، تغطي تطور الفكر...
Well, I was kind of pissed because the Spanish edition I have of this has the book cover and back cover of 'A Brief History of Time', but is actually the reader's companion. I didn't think I would like this much, but I have to admit it was pretty fast reading and fairly interesting. This details ...
In ancient times, the world must have seemed pretty arbitrary. Disasters such as floods or diseases must have seemed to happen without warning, or apparent reason. Primitive people attributed such natural phenomena, to a pantheon of gods and goddesses, who behaved in a capricious and whimsical wa...
Before them, people believed Aristotle, who said that the natural state of a body was to be at rest, and that it moved only if driven by a force or impulse. It followed that a heavier body should fall faster than a light one because it would have a greater pull toward the earth. The Aristotelian ...
P. Hartley wrote, “The past is a foreigncountry. They do things differently there-but why is the past so differentfrom the future? Why do we remember the past, but not the future?” In otherwords, why does time go forward? Is this connected with the fact that the uni-verse is expanding?C, P, TThe ...