Dal Big Bang ai buchi neri

A physicist from Cambridge, Hawking, walks readers from ancient cosmology to current research, covering Newton's gravity, Einstein's relativity, the expanding universe, and the origin of everything in the Big Bang. He pays special attention to black holes, including his own finding that they glow with radiation, and discusses the problem of reconciling general relativity with quantum mechanics. He argues that finding a complete theory is within reach and that an ordinary person should be able to follow its main ideas. Examples are drawn from everyday objects, and the text keeps equations out.

For anyone with a taste for popular science who wants a single short book about space, time, and the cosmos. It makes the field feel approachable and invites further reading.

Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.

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