The Illustrated A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

An enlightening read, difficult at points but worth it. Beautiful illustrated edition.

I have previously read about some of the topics in this book, most recently New Scientist. Essential Guide Issue #1 The Nature of Reality and last year Wonders of the Universe by Professor Brian Cox.

As the title suggests, there is a bit of history, Aristotle, Copernicus, etc, then it goes into Einstein and General Theory of Relativity to explain the phenomena that we can observe. It gets more complicated with Quantum Mechanics to explain phenomena at a super microscopic level. Chapter on Black Holes was my favourite. Second favourite Wormholes. Maybe because it reminds me of science fiction. I struggled understanding the logic in WHY scientists think the Universe is expanding (not about Hubble's observations but what makes the universe expand) and why it is the way it is. I got lost when Hawking used imaginary numbers.... Nevertheless I hope I'll be able to understand as I keep reading more on the topic.