I recently finished Stephen Hawking's newest book, "The Grand Design" last night, and I thought I would spend the post today talking a little about it. It was very well-written, and written at a level that makes it an accessible text for the educated public. A layman interested in the findings of physics, such as myself, can pick it up and not feel lost because they never took physics beyond high school. What Hawking, and Mlodinow, have to say (and it isn't clear who did most of the writing of the two) is fascinating as they chart the historical progression of science in answering the Big Questions that they mention at the start of the book; Why is there something rather than nothing, why do we exist, etc. They discuss the nature of reality, the historical progression of scientific naturalism, quantum theory, the search for the Theory of Everything and other topics. It was all easy to understand, save the chapter on quantum theory which I struggled through. As I sai...
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