Stephen Hawking has garnered renown as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since the time of Einstein. In this seminal work, Professor Hawking bestows his prodigious intellect upon readers of all backgrounds, guiding them with masterful clarity through the profound questions concerning the nature of time and the cosmos. Did time have a beginning? Will it have an end? Is the universe infinite, or does it possess boundaries?
From the days of Galileo and Newton to the frontiers of modern astrophysics, from the vast expanse of the cosmos to the minuteness of subatomic particles, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating odyssey across distant galaxies, through black holes, and into alternate dimensions. It is as close as humankind has yet come to comprehending the mind of God.
From the vantage of the wheelchair that has confined him for more than two decades due to Lou Gehrig’s disease, Stephen Hawking has irrevocably altered our perception of the universe. With eloquence and fervor, A Brief History of Time unfolds as the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge—the unyielding pursuit of the tantalizing secrets that lie at the very heart of time and space.
