标题: 《The Theory of Everything_ The Origin and 》作者： - Hawking_ Stephen【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2015-8-18 21:08 标题: 《The Theory of Everything_ The Origin and 》作者： - Hawking_ Stephen【EPUB】 With a title inspired as much by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series as Einstein, The Theory of Everything delivers almost as much as it promises. Transcribed from Stephen Hawking's Cambridge Lectures, the slim volume may not present a single theory unifying gravity with the other fundamental forces, but it does carefully explain the state of late 20th-century physics with the great scientist's characteristic humility and charm. Explicitly shunning math, Hawking explains the fruits of 100 years of heavy thinking with metaphors that are simple but never condescending--he compares the settling of the newborn universe into symmetry to the formation of ice crystals in a glass of water, for example. While he explores his own work (especially when speaking about black holes), he also discu