A Brief History of Time Summary
Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time Summary

Stephen W. Hawking writes about the history and present thinking of theoretical physicists in a manner the average person can understand. He begins with the earlier ways people understood the universe and moves to the present day, where many theories exist for specific pieces of the whole picture, but none of the theories cover the universe in its entirety.

Aristotle's thinking that everything is made up of only four elements and...

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