25. January, 2024 - Reading time 3 min.

Hello out there!

Every time you search for some new inspiration, and I´m sure everyone is searching sometimes, it´s quiet a trip to dive into Stephen Hawking´s world. At first, one might get overwhelming feeling by facing a biggest genius of the post modern times. But the incredible power of the heard content can fuel your own natural excitement for the Universe for quiet some time! This brief blog article is inspired by the audio book “A brief history of Time” written by Stephen Hawking. It´s as inspiring as you can imagine!

Stephen has its own anecdotal rhetorical style, here and there pretty amusing. I consider his book, in this case audio book, very catchy. The way he puts the most complex thesis together makes it very processable even for complete non-astrophysicists. I have been infatuated with physics during my gymnasium studies but the problem was with the math. That was the boundary that did not let me proceed with pursuing my passion for astrophysics. Because as Stephen states in several parts of his book “I don´t like the math behind this theory”, it seems quiet obvious, if you don´t have it in the books for the math, you do not proceed to astrophysics counter. As I understood later in life, not everything you enjoy doing has to result in a professional career. Sometime the fun is what you make of it as is.

There is an inherent luxury in being able to listen to someone who´s capable of jumping from Aristotle to Black holes while making few points about creation of the Universe on the go. The amount of knowledge hiding behind those nonchalant formulations is just incredible.

You´re home baby, we´re busy with Galactic Fossils here! I decided consciously to refrain from building any connection to any of my artistic work in this blog article. Everything I create is inspired by Universe, so how could I ever pick the right “example”? If Stephen can fly thru the history of the entire history of time in one book I can surely put my impression about it into 4 paragraphs!

Peter Von Hauerland