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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2319 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,063 ratings — published 1988
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1330 times as physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,823 ratings — published 1999
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1108 times as physics)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,771 ratings — published 1994
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1022 times as physics)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,569 ratings — published 2014
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 1001 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 222,365 ratings — published 1985
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 861 times as physics)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,421 ratings — published 2004
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 854 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,148 ratings — published 2017
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 824 times as physics)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,159 ratings — published 1964
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 815 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,831 ratings — published 1985
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 792 times as physics)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,469 ratings — published 2010
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as physics)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,889 ratings — published 2017
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 745 times as physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,033 ratings — published 2008
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 740 times as physics)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,329 ratings — published 1916
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 724 times as physics)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,847 ratings — published 1980
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 625 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,070 ratings — published 2001
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 620 times as physics)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,305 ratings — published 2014
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)
by (shelved 574 times as physics)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,606 ratings — published 2004
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,021 ratings — published 1984
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 517 times as physics)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,151 ratings — published 2011
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,660 ratings — published 1963
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 509 times as physics)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,209 ratings — published 2012
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (Theoretical Minimum #1)
by (shelved 504 times as physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,647 ratings — published 2013
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 500 times as physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,726 ratings — published 2018
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum #2)
by (shelved 453 times as physics)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,316 ratings — published 2014
Introduction to Electrodynamics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 447 times as physics)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,532 ratings — published 1981
The Character of Physical Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 445 times as physics)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,943 ratings — published 1965
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,999 ratings — published 2004
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 432 times as physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,494 ratings — published 1994
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as physics)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,793 ratings — published 2006
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 391 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,880 ratings — published 2005
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as physics)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,961 ratings — published 1987
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 387 times as physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,891 ratings — published 1994
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 384 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,444 ratings — published 2019
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 375 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,527 ratings — published 2016
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 375 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,664 ratings — published 2012
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,718 ratings — published 2007
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,485 ratings — published 1977
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,445 ratings — published 2003
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 207,849 ratings — published 2007
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 323 times as physics)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,212 ratings — published 2014
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 323 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,040 ratings — published 2002
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as physics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,779 ratings — published 1994
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,763 ratings — published 2006
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as physics)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,135 ratings — published 2018
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as physics)
avg rating 4.00 — 18,239 ratings — published 2011
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,860 ratings — published 2020
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 305 times as physics)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,523 ratings — published 2018
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 31,225 ratings — published 1988
Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?)
by (shelved 300 times as physics)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,533 ratings — published 2009
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as physics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,757 ratings — published 1989
“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
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“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
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