*2020 REREAD* Dark Matter still reigns supreme, but this book still kicks quantum buttocks.
“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory.*2020 REREAD* Dark Matter still reigns supreme, but this book still kicks quantum buttocks.
“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
Still thinking about this twisted tale. Not *quite* as good as Dark Matter, but still quite the trip. Officially drunk on the Crouch Kool-Aid.
Beautiful, haunting, mind melding.
“He thinks perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.”...more
Would revisit this one in the future as it's so short and interesting—very light on Extremely readable—on par with Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
Would revisit this one in the future as it's so short and interesting—very light on the physics.
My favorite topic would have to be time travel, which Hawking believes is theoretically possible, but unlikely.
This book was published 7 months after Hawking's death and was finished by his scientific colleagues, friends, and family using his writings, lectures, and notes.
Included is a foreword from Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne, who played Hawking in the movie The Theory of Everything; an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Hawking's lifelong friend, Kip Thorne; and a touching afterword from Hawking's daughter, Lucy.
“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.”...more
*2020 REREAD* Still as epic and excellent as I remember—one of my favorite books on the multiverse. I want to bottle up the essence of this book, drin*2020 REREAD* Still as epic and excellent as I remember—one of my favorite books on the multiverse. I want to bottle up the essence of this book, drink it, and exude literary coolness like Crouch. _____________________
One of my favorite books of 2017.
Short and packs a punch, I may revisit this one again soon—or at the very least—read another Blake Crouch book.
⭐️✨
“I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”
“For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken.”...more
"For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfe"For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. ... A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark."
11/22/63, Steven King
A bit macabre, but hands down the best book I've read yet this year; rounding out the list with "The Martian," and, "The Girl on the Train."
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