'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy'
Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The
Times'This superbly written book offers insight into an
extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and
limits of our current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin
ReesStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual
superstar's final thoughts on the universe. Perhaps the biggest
question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life
was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly
hospitable to life.In order to solve this mystery, Hawking studied
the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a
crisis when the math predicted many big bangs producing a
multiverse - countless different universes, most of which would be
far too bizarre to harbour life. Holed up in the theoretical
physics department at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking and his friend and
collaborator Thomas Hertog worked on this problem for twenty years,
developing a new theory of the cosmos that could account for the
emergence of life. Peering into the extreme quantum physics of
cosmic holograms and venturing far back in time, they were startled
to find a deeper level of evolution in which the physical laws
themselves transform and simplify until particles, forces, and even
time itself fades away.This discovery led them to a revolutionary
idea: The laws of physics are not set in stone but are born and
co-evolve as the universe they govern takes shape. As Hawking's
final days drew near, the two collaborators published their theory,
which proposed a radical new Darwinian perspective on the origins
of our universe. On the Origin of Time offers a striking new vision
of the universe's birth that will profoundly transform the way we
think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately
prove to be Hawking's greatest legacy.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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