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A review by okcomp16
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
4.0
I'm surprised about how much I understood excluding the more complicated math that was mentioned but not explained.
It was mostly theoretical, I understood just about everything or at least I think I did, I can't really know, but for a person that isn't a physicist, the certainty that I have right now surprises me.
That is the biggest compliment I can give this book, despite the fact that is an incredibly complicated subject, It was hard sometimes, but I could read it and finish it. Sometimes information piled and I needed to stop to take a break from all the information but the writing in itself is very accessible.
Regarding the topic, I don't know if it's possible to prove this theory, I need to read more about it, but I understood the logic behind it, the book perfectly explains how this theory came to be.
In the beginning, the book claims "philosophy is dead" but ironically this reads a great deal like a philosophy book and I loved every philosophical moment in here, the chapter "What is reality?" was my favorite and the model-dependent realism has now become my new answer to the question. This mix of philosophy with physics is ideal for me, I felt fascinated by everything I learned and now I have an urge to annoy people by telling them about it.
It was mostly theoretical, I understood just about everything or at least I think I did, I can't really know, but for a person that isn't a physicist, the certainty that I have right now surprises me.
That is the biggest compliment I can give this book, despite the fact that is an incredibly complicated subject, It was hard sometimes, but I could read it and finish it. Sometimes information piled and I needed to stop to take a break from all the information but the writing in itself is very accessible.
Regarding the topic, I don't know if it's possible to prove this theory, I need to read more about it, but I understood the logic behind it, the book perfectly explains how this theory came to be.
In the beginning, the book claims "philosophy is dead" but ironically this reads a great deal like a philosophy book and I loved every philosophical moment in here, the chapter "What is reality?" was my favorite and the model-dependent realism has now become my new answer to the question. This mix of philosophy with physics is ideal for me, I felt fascinated by everything I learned and now I have an urge to annoy people by telling them about it.