10 Books That Anyone Who Cares About Science Needs to Read
9. A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking
Only time (whatever that may be) will tell. - Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time Arguably in the same genius bracket as Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell, Stephen Hawking has done what other physicists could only dream of: revolutionising our outlook on the universe we live in. A Brief History of Time attempts to bring the complex topic of the relatively of time to those that dont have a broad knowledge of elaborate mathematical concepts; essentially those people like you and me. In fact, publishers were so concerned that buyers would be put off by the complexity of the book that they estimated for every equation that was included, the readership would be halved. This led to Hawking only including one equation in the entire text, the infamous E=mc2. Although compared to other books in this list A Brief History of Time has perhaps the least easily digested concepts. Yet after selling around 10 million copies, it certainly holds the title of being the most influential. At the time of its release, Einsteins ideas of time travel and black holes were only known and understood by masochistic physicists who enjoy inflicting that sort of mathematical pain on themselves. But after its publishing in 1988, suddenly any Tom, Dick and Harry could discuss high level physics.
