Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2014)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions is a 2014 science book written by Stephen Hawking.
Assembled from Stephen Hawking's essays, lectures, and personal archive after his death, this book gathers his thinking on the questions he was asked most often, about God, the origin of the universe, whether we can predict the future, the real risk of artificial intelligence, and whether humanity can survive its own century. Hawking answers in the accessible, mischievous voice that made him famous, moving from black holes to space colonization and the threats we pose ourselves. Eddie Redmayne, who played him on screen, contributes a foreword, and his daughter Lucy an afterword. A parting word from one of physics' great communicators.
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Assembled from Stephen Hawking's essays, lectures, and personal archive after his death, this book gathers his thinking on the questions he was asked most often, about God, the origin of the universe, whether we can predict the future, the real risk of artificial intelligence, and whether humanity can survive its own century. Hawking answers in the accessible, mischievous voice that made him famous, moving from black holes to space colonization and the threats we pose ourselves. Eddie Redmayne, who played him on screen, contributes a foreword, and his daughter Lucy an afterword. A parting word from one of physics' great communicators.
When was Brief Answers to the Big Questions published?
Brief Answers to the Big Questions was published in 2014.
Who made Brief Answers to the Big Questions?
Brief Answers to the Big Questions was written by Stephen Hawking.
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Newcomers who want the man behind the ideas should watch The Theory of Everything, the biopic that earned Eddie Redmayne an Oscar and traces Stephen Hawking's science alongside his illness. To keep chasing the cosmic questions themselves, Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey carries the same gift for making deep physics feel close and vivid.
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