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    But let’s go with optimism and hope that, rather than exercises in reductionism, formats like this are, as Neil deGrasse Tyson said of the soundbite, triggers for interest which “set a learning path into motion that becomes self-driven.” In other words, let’s hope this gets more people to read A Brief History of Time, one of these seven timeless reads about time.
Perhaps it's time that you read a Brief History of Time? It is a book that has been on my reading list for 10 years and somehow always manages to stay there.

    Hawking (or at least this video) is suggesting that more black holes are developing as we speak that will one day explode causing another big bang?

It does sound to me like that is what the video is suggesting. I'll also await a scientists reply.





lil  ·  4083 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    t is a book that has been on my reading list for 10 years and somehow always manages to stay there.
That's because it is unreadable. I read somewhere that A Brief History of Time was the most bought and the least read book of all time.
b_b  ·  4083 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not unreadable. It's that people aren't interested in reading it; they're interested in wanting to read it. I read it many years ago, and it covers topics that are pretty deep in a pretty superficial way. You aren't going to come away with a great understanding of how the universe operates (and some of it you won't understand), but you will come away with a sense that you are more informed about what you are seeing when you look up at the stars.