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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2341 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,027 ratings — published 1988
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1333 times as physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,547 ratings — published 1999
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1113 times as physics)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,244 ratings — published 1994
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1040 times as physics)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,958 ratings — published 2014
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 1004 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 224,668 ratings — published 1985
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 864 times as physics)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,713 ratings — published 2004
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 859 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,595 ratings — published 2017
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 830 times as physics)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,201 ratings — published 1964
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 827 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,975 ratings — published 1985
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 801 times as physics)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,086 ratings — published 2017
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 791 times as physics)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,859 ratings — published 2010
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 753 times as physics)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,494 ratings — published 1916
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 746 times as physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,314 ratings — published 2008
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 733 times as physics)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,653 ratings — published 1980
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 628 times as physics)
avg rating 4.32 — 17,655 ratings — published 2014
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 624 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,423 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 582 times as physics)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,653 ratings — published 2004
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,135 ratings — published 1984
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,743 ratings — published 1963
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 517 times as physics)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,267 ratings — published 2011
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 511 times as physics)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,371 ratings — published 2012
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (Theoretical Minimum #1)
by (shelved 505 times as physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,668 ratings — published 2013
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 498 times as physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 92,081 ratings — published 2018
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum #2)
by (shelved 459 times as physics)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,354 ratings — published 2014
Introduction to Electrodynamics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as physics)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,553 ratings — published 1981
The Character of Physical Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 449 times as physics)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,996 ratings — published 1965
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,120 ratings — published 2004
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,602 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 — 10,833 ratings — published 2006
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 395 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 44,237 ratings — published 2005
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 391 times as physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,568 ratings — published 2019
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,913 ratings — published 1994
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as physics)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,475 ratings — published 1987
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 380 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,747 ratings — published 2012
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 378 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,666 ratings — published 2016
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,786 ratings — published 2007
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,562 ratings — published 1977
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,461 ratings — published 2003
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 211,639 ratings — published 2007
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,265 ratings — published 2018
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 202,268 ratings — published 2014
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as physics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,859 ratings — published 1994
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 321 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,403 ratings — published 2002
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,137 ratings — published 2020
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,994 ratings — published 2006
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 — 18,307 ratings — published 2011
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 305 times as physics)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,559 ratings — published 2018
Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?)
by (shelved 303 times as physics)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,608 ratings — published 2009
"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 — 31,483 ratings — published 1988
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as physics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,809 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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