Michael’s Reviews > A Brief History of Time > Status Update

Chapters 4 and 5 are a little dicey for me. I grasped some of the basic concepts like quarks, the uncertainty principle etc but wished he slow walked us through their effects. That said, it’s incredible that light is both a wave and a particle and that gravity is the weakest force in nature but the controller of the universe’s development. Love a counterintuitive discovery!

Impressive that this book is still fairly accurate but one thing that has recently been examined is the likelihood of the “Big Crunch” (The universe recollaposing upon itself). Some researchers believe the universe might actually be through over 1/3 its lifespan and could eventually collapse upon itself (much like the Republican Party).