A Brief History Of Time

The book I read to research this post was A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking which is a very good book that I bought from a car boot sale. This book is around 230 pages so is a decent length. A film recently was made about Stephen’s life and Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal. He is probably the greatest physicist of his generation and this book is his defining text. He explains a lot of complex concepts like the string theories and blackholes in language you can mostly understand. He did have a progressive debilitating illness for most of his life and many people regard him as almost as great as Einstein and Newton. I did very much enjoy this book and definitely recommend it. The subject Stephen specializes in is blackholes where if a star has more than a certain critical mass it eventually collapses and becomes one. A star like our sun will become a red giant then a white dwarf. The sun is less than that critical mass. Stars like Cygnus X-1 has got a nearby black hole and is 6 times bigger than our sun.