Black Hole

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At the end of the chapter, you will understand everything, and everything will be pretty clear to you, whatever he wanted to explain. What I love about the book is that the personality of Stephen Hawking comes across, and you enjoy reading it. It’s such a beautiful right to read this book. Also, it shows that he was a very humorous person and funny because many times in this book, he gets into this self-deprecating humor thing. These excerpts are taken from the book There Are Places In The World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, published by Allen Lane on 5 November in the UK. A review follows overleaf A lyrical science communicator’: Carlo Rovelli. Photograph: Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images I had great difficulty telling the different characters apart. Too many looked alike, with long light hair. Individual characteristics were few and maybe this was intentional. Many of the characters I was only able to recognize once their particular deformity was revealed or focused upon but this did pose a problem with two of the main characters, who never really showed outward signs.

The more accurately you know the positions of particles, the less accurately you can know their speeds, and vice versa" I found myself deeply unaffected by this book and profounding bored with its metaphorical suburban misery. I don't know. It's some how less unrealistic to me that there is a mysterious sexually transmitted diseases that makes you grow a vaginal-metaphor in your throat or a tail or turn into a dog-face boy than that dozens of teenages from nice suburban homes could develop horrible mutations and disapear en-masse into the woods with absolutely no part of the adult world even noticing. You guys sound ****ed up . . . What're you on, anyway?" -- 'Jill's older sister,' a minor character coincidentally echoing what I'd like to ask the author after finishing this book One colleague said she looked at it and she felt terrified of it. Another said the image on the cellphone was captivating for hours – just walking around staring at this image before it was released. So I think there is something arresting about the image beyond its technical achievement.” In this bleak graphic novel, set in the seventies, Seattle area teens have to deal with all the usual angst ridden issues of their age group - peer pressure, popularity, sex, isolation - AND - a strange, uncurable STD that causes not only eruptions of repulsive festering sores, but lumps, shedding skin, gaping wounds that talk, and tails. Kind of makes herpes seem like a walk in the park.

The problem here is that it is not how physics works. In physics, we have what is called the conservation of information. Even if you throw a book on fire, the information in the book will somehow be encoded in the heat and light ade in burning the book. Leonard Susskind gives a fantastic example in the book. Right. So, terrifying, then. Especially when Galison adds with cosmic understatement: “In the long term that’s not a good survival event.” A singularity is what you end up with when a giant star is compressed to an unimaginably small point." In the houses we were sharing, we nourished the adolescent dream of starting from zero, of remaking the world from scratch, of reshaping it into something different and more just. A naive enough dream, no doubt, always destined to encounter the inertia of the quotidian; always likely to suffer great disappointment. But it was the same dream that Copernicus had encountered in Italy at the beginning of the Renaissance. The dream not only of Leonardo and of Einstein but also of Robespierre, Gandhi and Washington: absolute dreams that often catapult us against a wall, that are frequently misdirected – but without which we would have none of what is best in our world today. The authors try to describe the spacetime by something called Penrose diagrams. I think I did a good job understanding it to some extent. But when it came to quantum entanglement in the last chapters, I kind of gave up. Because the equations involved with those chapters were more complex than the rest.

This graphic novel is so weird and twisted . . . yet, at the same time, makes so much sense. The first image below is just a taste of what you are getting into if you give this a try. Though the texts Chatterjee interprets are certainly multi-faceted and deserving of close readings, do any alternative reading strategies uncover underlying discursive elements that went into the making of those texts? In his section ‘One the poetic and historical imagination’, he offers a wonderfully detailed analysis of representations of Siraj-ud-daulah in the writings of Bengali Hindus, like Nabin Chandra Sen, and his play Palasir yuddha, first published in 1875, produced in the 1870s and also in the 1890s. In this play, Siraj appears as a cutthroat tyrant, probably due to the English and English-inflected sources about him that Sen received. This depiction received a critique about 20 years later by Akshaykumar Maitreya, who countered Nabin Chandra Sen’s depictions of Siraj by using varieties of new evidence from the period. Maitreya showed him as a ‘absolutist ruler fighting to defend the sovereignty of the state, which he believed was the precondition for peace and prosperity in the kingdom’ (p. 245). This move not only showed sympathy and humanity for Siraj, countering Orientalist and stereotypical constructions of Muslim rulers, but created the ‘foundations of nationalist anticolonial historiography’ (p. 243). Chatterjee then discusses the ‘dramatic national popular,’ worked out by playwrights and theater artists in the wake of these debates, as led by Girishchandra Ghosh in the first two decades of the 20th century. Neil Tyson is one of the greatest scientific educators we have ever had. He is probably unmatched when writing popular science books, where he covers topics that can be very counterintuitive. But he explains astrophysics very smoothly that anybody can understand without scientific knowledge. During the 70’s when the world was a-changing.....I was on the ‘tail’..., ( haha -“tail” I repeat!!!!)..... end of change.As we inhabit the heads of several key characters—some kids who have it, some who don't, some who are about to get it—what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself—the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.) This is definitely a hard read. I had to read some chapters again and again to understand ( not fully though). So if you are going to read this book, and understand it thoroughly, you should spend some time on it.

I finished Charles Burns’s graphic novel in the middle of the night, and wow… I gotta say, it lingers like the tail end of a surreal, disturbing dream. That’s fitting, because a lot of the book’s characters feel like they’re caught up in a nightmare too. This is not possible in Einstein’s theory, but then Einstein’s theory does not take quantum effects into account. Quantum mechanics permits matter to escape from its dark trap.

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governed, was at least sovereign, and therefore free, and had a state where even though the ruler was a Muslim, Hindus nonetheless enjoyed positions in the highest echelons of government (p. 242).