The Author Stephen Hawking
The Universe In a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking begins with an explanation of two very important fundamental theories of the 20th century. First, being the theory of general relativity, and secondly being, quantum theory which were both laid out by Albert Einstein. Furthermore, the book eventually ties these theories together and explains how our universe's history is determined by a "tiny nut".
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Part 1 The Man Behind it All
The man behind these two theories including a plethora of more, was known as Albert Einstein, who was born in 1879, in Ulm, Germany. At a young age, Albert was no child prodigy, but he did averagely among his peers, even though there are some claims that he was incompetent in school. Albert also, had a distaste in authority which plagued him through out his youth. In the year 1900, he completed his education and graduated from the esteemed Federal Polytechnical School, known as ETH at the time. Unfortunately, that distaste in authority caught up with him and he was unable to claim an assistant's position at the school. Luckily for him, two years later he was able to get a junior post at the Swiss Patent Office, in Bern. Fast forward three years from then and it was at this job where Einstein established himself as one of the world's most prominent scientist, in where he began a scientific revolution that completely altered our comprehension of space, time, and reality itself.
Einstein was a brilliant man and I always thought that he was a prodigy child, but he wasn’t which is astonishing. Also the fact that he was known as an Average person is really shocking.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing! You would think that a guy with such an influence on science would come from a very astute beginning, but as it seems, that's not the case.
DeleteWho would guess a brilliant mind such as Einstein would have a distaste in authority and also not show any signs of being brilliant as a child.
ReplyDeleteRight? I thought it really shows that the human mind has no bounds if one is determined.
DeleteIt's cool to learn about Einstein because I still don't know a lot about him yet. It's crazy to think that he wasn't a prodigy because he had such a brilliant mind. This book seems interesting and I'm eager to see how Hawking can fit the universe in a nutshell.
ReplyDeleteExactly! It is kind of hard to believe that Einstein was more of a rebel during his youth.
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