BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS: the final book from Stephen Hawking

The book is a collection of answers given by the man with such a beautiful heart and very innovative and creative brain. His answers and the reasoning to it are really insightful. The ways in which things can be seen and perceived are delightful to know. Will recommend

If u had interest in black hole and astronomy...this book is one of the good choices...must read.

Page and print quality are decent. No issues with reading. Packaging was good

Nice

To the readers , if you get a book such as these pictures, remember that's not a fake one.its a latest edition with different cover design, its 100% genuine one, which you can check by the quality of paper and print also through various other ways.i have to say the book i got is in top notch quality in every sense , not damaged at all and totally new. i remain to read this yet but i have belief that it will be great as well just as other S.H. books.

Good

When it comes about Hawking's book I always get so excited. Hawking being suffered from ALS, nevertheless he brought cosmology to the home of a reader and acquired a special position in the reader's heart.This issue of Stephen Hawking comes with answering the basic and most profound question that humanity has been striving to achieve the perfect answer since we parted our ways from apes.I loved this book as I want to become a cosmologist and my I inspiration is Stephen Hawking. And not only that but I also loved this book because it helped me to get a abound knowledge about our domain (i.e earth) and our place in the observable universe.Hawking has covered most significant part of our common debate from existence of God to the black holes and beneficialness of artificial intelligence

A must read bookVery easy to understand,Simple english makes easy for everyone to understand science.I recommend this book.

Great book which explains complex subjects in easy terminology

Em suas últimas publicações enquanto vivo, Stephen Hawking responde todas as grandes questões científicas em aberto da atualidade com sua didática singular, raramente recorrendo a argumentos técnicos, deixando a leitura ainda mais leve. Eis um livro pequeno para capturar em duas ou três tardes as grandes ideias de um dos maiores cientistas do nosso tempo que rejeitava o rótulo de gênio. Destaque para a homenagem póstuma da sua esposa no final do livro, assaz emocionante.

Si buscas respuestas de física cuántica es el libro Ideal pero también muchas de esas respuestas aplican a la vida de un simple mortal

Stephen Hawking believed that it is possible to explain the basic ideas behind the discoveries in modern science in simple plain English, without equations, so that the general public, the majority of whom have meager education in the sciences, can comprehend. These include the esoteric fields of modern physics and astrophysics, The success of his bestselling book “A Brief History of Time”, seems to lend support to this belief. It is, however, questionable how many who bought the book actually finish reading it and how many would admit that certain portions of the book are simply difficult to understand, despite the remarkable effort of the author.What is indisputable is the clear, lucid, and occasionally humorous style which makes “A Brief History of Time” so attractive. He brought the same style to “Brief Answers to Big Questions”, his last book, published the year he died. There are 10 big questions chosen by Stephen. In my opinion, despite Stephen’s superlative skills in explaining ideas without equations, the answers to several big questions are difficult to comprehend to those readers who did not major in physics, including this reviewer who has a PhD in electrical engineering. These are:- What is inside a black hole?- Can we predict the future?- Is time travel possible?The answers to the other big questions, which are among the biggest and most intriguing (Is there a God? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonize space?) are easy to read and comprehensible. They contain keen observations, thoughtful warnings, humorous utterances, as well as serious advice to humankind. Below are examples in each category:Keen Observations:1..“I would like to speculate a little on the development of life in the universe, and in particular on the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behavior throughout history has been pretty stupid and not calculated to aid the survival of the species.”2. In January 2018, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the doomsday clock to two minutes to midnight. Hawking felt compelled to point out that such an alarming warning was prompted at least in part by the election of Donald Trump.3. “We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity”.Serious Warnings:1. “But we need to be wary of answering back to messages from intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe until we have developed a bit further”.2. “Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage, might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus – and I don’t think they thought they were better off for it”.Humorous Utterances:1. “I was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo, and I would like to think that this coincidence has had a bearing on how my scientific life has turned out. However, I estimate that about 200,000 other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them were later interested in astronomy”.2. “Yet the discovery of the New World made a profound difference to the Old. Just think, we wouldn’t have had the Big Mac or KFC”.Fans of science fiction movies will be glad to know that Stephen was one of them. Star Trek, Interstellar, 2001 A Space Odessey, Back to the Future, and even Terminator were mentioned in the book. When there was a connection between a movie and a topic discussed in the book, Stephen would point it out. For example, he mentioned that the concept of alternative histories was central to Back to the Future.Let me finish with two serious advice to humankind by Stephen Hawking and his answer to the biggest question “Is there a God?”1. “Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let’s make sure that wisdom wins”.2. “Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done”3. “We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that there is no God. I think belief in an afterlife is just wishful thinking…We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”Coming from a severely disabled person living on borrowed time, these statements are nothing short of remarkable. .Coming from a seriously disabled person living on borrowed time, the second advice is nothing short of remarkable.

Well written, engaging. A genius capable of explaining big and complicated topics with simplicity!