Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

It's like a collection, rather than a book ives I got it after I read A Brief History of Time. This book is a collection of essays and speeches that professor Hawking have given over the years. I feel like it lacks of continuity throughout the book while same concepts are being explained again and again in the same way. I thought it would be a book which professor Hawking would talk about the black holes and baby universe in a way that is similar to that in A Brief History of Time, but it's not really the case. The first few chapters are about Hawk. A Fuller Preview of One of Science's Best Writers Joseph Hill Because the movie about Professor Hawking, THEORY OF EVERYTHING, has just been released. This book is away to get to know him better. In this book he shares his life's story and what lead him to start his writing career. This title is a must have if you want a fuller picture about one of the best writers concerning theoretical physics and cosmology today.. Brief read of Hawking concepts While it's amazing Dr. Hawking can even write a book, this work doesn't not compare with earlier ventures, like the History of Time. Still a decent read but a bit overpriced for its brevity. Many sections are repetitive, as chapters were assembled from prior writings. Still many concepts were new to me and are explained only as this great author could with his expressive talents.

Hawking's first new book  since that event, a collection of fascinating and  illuminating essays, and a remarkable interview  broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day, 1992. These  fourteen pieces reveal Hawking variously as the  scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen,  and-always-the rigorous and imaginative thinker.  Hawking's wit, directness of style, and absence of pomp  characterize all of them, whether he is remembering  his first experience at nursery school; calling  for adequate education in science that will enable  the public to play its part in making informed  decisions on matters such as nuclear disarmament;  exploring the origins or the future of the universe; &

These baby universes, he adds, exist in imaginary time, "at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end." In other pieces Hawking assesses physicists' search for a complete, unified "theory of everything"; argues in favor of the tenet that people have free will; calls for large cuts in armaments; and describes his triumph over Lou Gehrig's disease, which has confined him to a wheelchair and forced him to communicate via a personal computer and speech synthesizer. . He speculates that spaceships or objects that fall into a black hole may go off into "a little baby universe of their own," a small, self-contained world that branches off from our region of space-time. Copyrig