Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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Though 2018 brought the death of Stephen Hawking, it also brought us a terrific opportunity to reflect on what an exceptional man he was. However watered down the word has become, Hawking was a genius in its truest sense. Not just for his contributions to cosmology, and the scientific world in general, but for the mental fortitude she showed in pushing past an ALS diagnosis that gave him 2 years to live. In 1963.
Twenty-five years later, Hawking published A Brief History of Time, his first book aimed at giving those of us without Stephen Hawking levels of intelligence and understanding of the origin and development of the universe a graspable glimpse of where we came from. Brief Answers to the Big Questions continues in that vein.
Hawking's last writings, published posthumously, considers the challenges Earth, and we as its inhabitants, face today. Climate change. The threat of nuclear war. The fast development of artificial intelligence. All that fun stuff you like to think about in your free time! Yeah, the topics are heady, and considering them is stressful, but these are the Big Questions we have to deal with, and in Brief Answers to the Big Questions Hawking tries to help us do it.
In his final act, his final contribution to humankind, Hawking discusses his thoughts on whether or not humanity will survive, if we should colonize space, and if God exists. To get things started. Brief Answers to the Big Questions also features a foreword from actor Eddie Redmayne, the Oscar winner who played Hawking in The Theory of Everything, an introduction by Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne, and an afterword from Hawking's daughter, Lucy.
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