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A Brief History of Time
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking · Alfa Yayıncılık · 1988
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From the Big Bang to black holes, from the expanding universe to the nature of time itself — a captivating journey through the most complex ideas in astrophysics, written so that anyone can follow.
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“The universe has no boundary — which leaves no room for a god to stand outside it and watch.”
“The greatest triumph of the human mind is that it can understand the very rules of the universe that built it.”
“Time is nothing more than the direction in which disorder increases.”
“Inside a black hole, time loses all meaning entirely.”
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of already knowing.”
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Hawking writes from a body confined to a wheelchair and a mind that recognises no such confinement. This is not simply a book about physics. It is an argument that time is far more relative than we instinctively feel, that the concepts of beginning and end are constructions of the human mind rather than features of reality.
Cevvela reaches for this book when working with people who have been stunted by the belief that something is impossible. Read it, and the pettiness of daily anxieties — status battles, wounded pride, the urgent drama of the ordinary — becomes almost embarrassing. Set against billions of years of expanding void, the things we inflate into crises reveal themselves for what they are: microscopic, fleeting, and largely self-invented.
That is not nihilism. It is liberation. The only thing that gives existence any weight, Hawking suggests, is the effort to understand it.