Biographies, dramas, science-fictions, thrillers etc, the more you explore the more you dive deep into the world of words, where the author is present and absent at the same time. This “present absent” form of interpretation can only be experienced while reading.
This type of dramatic opening may not be suitable for a non-fiction, science-centric book like “The brief history of Time” written by Stephen Hawking, but I found the book as a great poem that satisfies curiosity with intellect. Here are the 3 reasons according to me why someone should read “The brief history of time”.
Perspective
The book offers the widest and the tiniest perspectives possible, as wide as more than one universes and as tiny as particles vibrating in 10 dimensions. These perspectives offer you a completely different view of the world and the surrounding you live in. Such a frame of reference to the world helps you give birth to all kinds of essential issues that should be resolved, or the questions that should be attempted, or the belief that should be questioned, the list goes on. And the most important, it gives you a scientific perspective without being atheist.
Timeline
The book gives you an elaborate understanding of how a theory is developed from a mere idea through a route of little-by-little advancements, without using any scientific equations. How human beings have intellectually grown in recent centuries is highlighted. From the back of a tortoise to blackholes, from Galileo to Doppler, from Newtonian gravity to relativity to string theory, humanity have come a long way in finding the unified theory of the universe and to predict the future.
Curiosity
Curiosity is the fuel of a genius. Mind should never get full on it. This book helps in igniting that fire. Why early universe is considered to be dense and hot? Why once, there felt a need of even proving 1+1=2? How many dimensions are there? Why is space expanding? These questions are very science related but at least they make you think why are we the way we are. The book takes you through the deep mysteries of universes and theories, both accepted and rejected, and puts you back at the same place you started, but with a different sense of understanding and a better approach towards life.
