On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it?
Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of
I especially like his 300 Years of Gravitation and his '73 work on large
scale structure in time/space.
stuff. This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim
Hartle's class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into
the newer theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've
skimmed.
Then you should skim more of them. Hawkings really jelled black hole
theory in the '73 work. He's pretty much the real modern father to some
folks.
I think he kicks Wheelers ass (nothing personal to Wheeler).
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