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Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking ペーパーバック – 2018/10/16
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'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' GUARDIAN
The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work.
Is there a God?
How did it all begin?
Can we predict the future?
What is inside a black hole?
Is there other intelligent life in the universe?
Will artificial intelligence outsmart us?
How do we shape the future?
Will we survive on Earth?
Should we colonise space?
Is time travel possible?
Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furthest reaches of space, Hawking always believed that science could also be used to fix the problems on our planet.
And now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes here on Earth - from climate change to dwindling natural resources to the threat of artificial super-intelligence - Stephen Hawking turns his attention to the most urgent issues for humankind.
Wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating, passionately argued, and infused with his characteristic humour, BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS, the final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next.
A percentage of all royalties will go to charity.
- 本の長さ256ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社John Murray Publishers Ltd
- 発売日2018/10/16
- 寸法16.3 x 2.8 x 22.1 cm
- ISBN-101473695988
- ISBN-13978-1473695986
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Almost everything in Brief Answers is effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty ― Guardian
The best, most mind-bending sort of physics: black holes, time travel, the origins of the universe ― The Times
It is that ultra-distinctive voice (modest, profound, sometimes very funny) that knits this book together ― Sunday Times
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- 出版社 : John Murray Publishers Ltd (2018/10/16)
- 発売日 : 2018/10/16
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 256ページ
- ISBN-10 : 1473695988
- ISBN-13 : 978-1473695986
- 寸法 : 16.3 x 2.8 x 22.1 cm
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
「神は存在するのか」
科学と宗教の境界、それは時代とともに変化する。
昔は、日食月食などを含めすべて神のなせる業だったが、神の範囲は後退してゆく。
ビッグバンの前には、時間すら存在しない。だから神は?
私の理解の限界を越えていますが、興味津々です。
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What is indisputable is the clear, lucid, and occasionally humorous style which makes “A Brief History of Time” so attractive. He brought the same style to “Brief Answers to Big Questions”, his last book, published the year he died. There are 10 big questions chosen by Stephen. In my opinion, despite Stephen’s superlative skills in explaining ideas without equations, the answers to several big questions are difficult to comprehend to those readers who did not major in physics, including this reviewer who has a PhD in electrical engineering. These are:
- What is inside a black hole?
- Can we predict the future?
- Is time travel possible?
The answers to the other big questions, which are among the biggest and most intriguing (Is there a God? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonize space?) are easy to read and comprehensible. They contain keen observations, thoughtful warnings, humorous utterances, as well as serious advice to humankind. Below are examples in each category:
Keen Observations:
1..“I would like to speculate a little on the development of life in the universe, and in particular on the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behavior throughout history has been pretty stupid and not calculated to aid the survival of the species.”
2. In January 2018, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the doomsday clock to two minutes to midnight. Hawking felt compelled to point out that such an alarming warning was prompted at least in part by the election of Donald Trump.
3. “We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity”.
Serious Warnings:
1. “But we need to be wary of answering back to messages from intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe until we have developed a bit further”.
2. “Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage, might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus – and I don’t think they thought they were better off for it”.
Humorous Utterances:
1. “I was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo, and I would like to think that this coincidence has had a bearing on how my scientific life has turned out. However, I estimate that about 200,000 other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them were later interested in astronomy”.
2. “Yet the discovery of the New World made a profound difference to the Old. Just think, we wouldn’t have had the Big Mac or KFC”.
Fans of science fiction movies will be glad to know that Stephen was one of them. Star Trek, Interstellar, 2001 A Space Odessey, Back to the Future, and even Terminator were mentioned in the book. When there was a connection between a movie and a topic discussed in the book, Stephen would point it out. For example, he mentioned that the concept of alternative histories was central to Back to the Future.
Let me finish with two serious advice to humankind by Stephen Hawking and his answer to the biggest question “Is there a God?”
1. “Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let’s make sure that wisdom wins”.
2. “Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done”
3. “We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that there is no God. I think belief in an afterlife is just wishful thinking…We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”
Coming from a severely disabled person living on borrowed time, these statements are nothing short of remarkable.
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Coming from a seriously disabled person living on borrowed time, the second advice is nothing short of remarkable.

