February 21, 2022.

A trio on cosmic physics.

First.  

I read HAWKING HAWKING which was a biography by Charles Seife detailing the health, love and work of this man praised for his great brain and battered body.  He was great a subject in film, television and literature.  His life’s work in physics, astrophysics etc made me aware how little I knew of this scientist ’ world.

Suddenly I needed to something about the intellectual world of physics and astra cosmology. So I began reading. I only had a smattering of knowledge on the importance of Newton, Einstein and many others. 

It was a start.  Waiting for the book on Libby, I read the sample chapter one of Hawking’s praised book -  A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME.  This was relatively easy going for me….?? I was amazed to find Hawking’s writing style to be so succinct that I could follow the logic of such an esteemed scientist. To a point.

Still waiting, in a queue a few months for my online library service to deliver A Short History of Time I noticed an audiobook by Neil Degrassi Tyson called DEATH IN A BLACK HOLE.

I am currently reading this.

Again I find the explanations of …the death of science … the adventure, the community of shared knowledge,  engrossing and what is more, for me, manageable.

 I am shooting for the moon reading some of the stars of physics literature but I am impressed.  When I finish my indulgent, perhaps pointless study of cosmic physiology, I hope to remember at least the adventure of science.  And the words, names, era.

Soon I may have a copy of A Brief History of Time to read, soon. Heavens help me improve?