A Brief History of Time

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:09 pm

by the intellectually unmatched stephen hawking. man, this book was awesome. i had to go back and reread some of it a few times because some of the topics he touches on are a little outside the realm of day to day thought (for anyone who isn't a physicist, anyhow.) if you have any interest in the workings of the universe, on a grand or minute scale, you should check this out.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:30 pm

I read this baby on a road trip when I was [way too] young, and it had quite an impression on me. I also saw the movie on the big screen when it came out. I don't remember too much of it now, but I leafed through the book again when I was 16-ish and I was impressed by how down-to-earth and clear it was, in direct contrast with nearly every other book I'd read on the subject[s]. Hawking personally cultivated in me a passion for theoretical physics that I dropped like a fucking stone the moment I discovered women. At the time I saw it as a one-or-the-other sort of deal. Frankly, I've never looked back.

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:25 pm

there's a movie?!

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:52 pm

Errol fucking Morris yo.

UnDesirable · Post by **UnDesirable** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:12 am

I did a search of my local public library's database and found out that they have this movie in VHS, so if anyone is interested in it they should check their own local library.

Freddielove · Post by **Freddielove** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:21 pm

I had a chance to attend a public lecture by the man when he was here as part of a new physiscs institute endowment at Texas A&M.

http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/ ... 102-6.html

He spent a lot of the time promoting his book Universe in a Nutshell http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055380 ... e&n=283155 and campaining for a Nobel.

But when you have a chance to hear one of the greatest minds of your time, even when you know his voice box is talking down to you, you go.