Book review: A briefer history of time

Yay, finished this book titled "A briefer history of time", some sort of 2nd version of "A brief history of time". I just got this mood to write a book review today, but actually I've read this kind of books like girls reading horny comics.

Here's the coverpage . This book is authored by Stephen Hawking<-- check out this guy> and co-author Leonard Mlodinow.

This book is a collection of generalised ideas of modern physics, which is ideal for non-geeks. You can find gists of quantum theory, general relativity, special relativity and so on. After the conclusion you can find Stephen Hawking's description of 3 prominent physicists namely Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei and Issac Newton.

There are quite some interesting facts about the 3 physicists. There was an anti-Einstein organisation, people threatened to kill him. Einstein said, "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

Hawking expresses Issac Newton as "WAS NOT A PLEASANT man". His general social relations were awful with other scholars, resulting the later part of his life drowning in disputes. His biggest contributions are the theory of gravity and Principia Mathematica. There were other unknown facts that I didn't know.

They say that "A brief history of time" has sold for dunno how many million copies, about 1 book for every 5 people, man, woman, and child on earth. WOW.

For further reading, I recommend the following books Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku and his other books. You can read "A brief history of time" also if you wish to.



AND I WANT TO WATCH THE MOVIE SUNSHINE!!! Jing Hao wants to watch it too!! Yay! It is SOOO appealing to me!!!

There was a young lady of Wight
Who traveled much faster than light.
She departed one day,
In a relative way,
And arrived on the previous night.

Nice limerick isn't it?