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Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions By Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking


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The final book from Professor Stephen Hawking, the bestselling author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME and arguably the most famous scientist of our age, BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS is a profound, accessible and timely reflection on the biggest questions in science.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions Summary

Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' GUARDIAN

The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work.

Is there a God?
How did it all begin?
Can we predict the future?
What is inside a black hole?
Is there other intelligent life in the universe?
Will artificial intelligence outsmart us?
How do we shape the future?
Will we survive on Earth?
Should we colonise space?
Is time travel possible?

Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furthest reaches of space, Hawking always believed that science could also be used to fix the problems on our planet.

And now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes here on Earth - from climate change to dwindling natural resources to the threat of artificial super-intelligence - Stephen Hawking turns his attention to the most urgent issues for humankind.

Wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating, passionately argued, and infused with his characteristic humour, BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS, the final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next.

A percentage of all royalties will go to charity.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions Reviews

A beautiful book from a brilliant mind * Daily Telegraph *
Almost everything in Brief Answers is effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty * Guardian *
The best, most mind-bending sort of physics: black holes, time travel, the origins of the universe * The Times *
It is that ultra-distinctive voice (modest, profound, sometimes very funny) that knits this book together * Sunday Times *
It is that ultra-distinctive voice (modest, profound, sometimes very funny) that knits this book together * Sunday Times *
The best, most mind-bending sort of physics: black holes, time travel, the origins of the universe * The Times *

About Stephen Hawking

STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He died on 14 March, 2018.

Additional information

GOR009553174
9781473695986
1473695988
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Murray Press
2018-10-16
256
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