The Washington Post, December 2nd, 1988
There are two great mysteries in this world. First, how did the universe begin? Second, how does a book that attempts to answer that question-a book about muons and gluons, about thermodynamic arrows and space-time singularities, about quantum gravity and superstrings, a book that argues convincingly against the existence of Einstein's cosmological constant-become the No. 1 best seller for 20 weeks in a row? Having now twice read Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," a smash popularization of modern physics, I am preoccupied with the second question and no closer to an answer for the fi...
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