{"id":468,"date":"2012-09-02T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=468"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:18:59","slug":"year-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1988:\u00a0<strong>A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang to Black Holes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Published: New York<\/h4>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Stephen W. Hawking<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/title\/brief-history-of-time-from-the-big-bang-to-black-holes\/oclc\/17105155&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-469   alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime1.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hawking\u2019s <em>A Brief History of Time<\/em>, his first popular book, was published in 1988, and went on to sell 10 million copies (and, apocryphally, to be named the most bought and unread book).<\/p>\n<p><em>A Brief History of Time<\/em> is brief, vividly explained, and contains just one equation (E=mc<sup>2<\/sup>, for the curious), but it is still a mind-boggling tour of physics of the late twentieth century. Hawking reviews classical physics, relativity, and quantum theory. Then, he explores the search for a unified field theory that could combine these and resolve puzzling problems. Hawking concluded it was possible such a theory could soon be developed.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still looking. But as Hawking wrote \u201cA complete, consistent, unified theory is only the first step: our goal is a complete <em>understanding <\/em>of the events around us, and of our own existence.\u201d That is a quest we can find meaning in for years. Partly thanks to the impact of this and other well-written popular science books, hopefully even more of us will find meaning in that quest in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-470  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime3-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime3-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime3-624x430.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ABriefHistoryofTime3.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1988:\u00a0A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang to Black Holes Published: New York Author\/Editor: Stephen W. Hawking Find it in Collins Library! Stephen Hawking\u2019s A Brief History of Time, his first popular book, was published in 1988, and went on to sell 10 million copies (and, apocryphally, to be named the most bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1978-1987"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}