Master of The Universe

A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Master of the Universe

I was encouraged to read A Brief History Of Time following a viewing of the film “The Theory of Everything”, a wonderful evocation of the lives of Stephen Hawking and his first wife, Jane Wilde. Eddie Redmayne’s portrayal of Hawking was breathtaking with wonderful support from Felicity Jones as Jane.

Reading the book took me on a journey that I had not before seriously contemplated. The origin of our universe. The prediction that space-time began at the big bang singularity before which ‘time’ did not exist and if our universe was ‘created’ did God create the universe. Hawking poses the question: “If God created the universe who or what created God?”

There is much here to get your head around. Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle, Planck’s quantum principle, black holes, wormholes and time travel, the arrow of time and the unification of physics.

There is much to enjoy and much to confound the average reader (like me) but if you wish to learn more about cosmological physics then A Brief History of Time, with its engaging combination of clarity and wit, should be on your ‘to read’ list.

The Los Angeles Times summed up: “A high-priest of physics, one of a handful of theorists who may be on the verge of reading God’s mind”. Amen to that....

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