A Brief History of Time

A deep dive into A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. An elderly lady interrupts an astronomy lecture to declare that the world is a flat plate resting on the back of a giant tortoise. What does the tortoise stand on? "You're very clever, young man, very clever, but it's turtles all the way down!" Every physical theory is provisional: it is only a hypothesis, one that a single contrary observation can bring down and that no accumulation of favourable observations can prove. Two criteria remain: to describe a wide class of phenomena from few arbitrary elements, and to yield predictions precise enough to be caught out. Newton's gravitation gives th… Read the full summary and listen to more books on Synopsia: https://synopsia.app