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Question
The science best-seller A Brief History of Time which made it into the Guinness Book of Records was written by:
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- A Stephen Hawking
- B Isaac Asimov
- C H. G. Wells
- D Stephen King
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A Stephen Hawking
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- The science best-seller A Brief History of Time which made it into the Guinness Book of Records was written by Stephen Hawking.
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a theoretical book on cosmology by English physicist Stephen Hawking.
- It was first published in 1988.
- Hawking wrote the book for readers who had no prior knowledge of physics and people who are interested in learning something new about interesting subjects.
- He talks about basic concepts like space and time, basic building blocks that make up the Universe and the fundamental forces that govern it (such as gravity).
- He writes about cosmological phenomena such as the Big Bang and black holes.