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George and the Big Bang was published in 2011 and is a space adventure meant for children above 9 years of age. In the book, which is the third in the series, the protagonist is young George who is friends with next-door neighbour Annie and her father Eric, who is a scientist. In the past, Eric’s super computer Cosmos had taken him and the children on space adventures. In this book, Eric is about to take part in one of the historic experiments of all time to determine and analyse the conditions of the universe due to the Big Bang, which will be recreated by the Large Hadron Collider. Quite by accident, George and Annie discover that some members of the group TOERAG (Theory of Everything Resists Addition of Gravity), an anti-science group of protesters, are out to sabotage the experiment and destroy the Collider. The rest of the story is about whether the kids can stop them in time and how they go about doing it. There are also details about some of the latest theories on time travel and the Big Bang theory along with fantastic pictures of space.
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. A renown physicist, he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which left him completely paralysed. His other books include The Theory Of Everything (With CD), God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History, The Illustrated a Brief History of Time: Updated and Expanded Edition, and A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein. He studied at University College in Oxford on a scholarship and earned a B.A. Degree in 1962. He later did his PhD at Cambridge in 1966. In 1969, he received a Fellowship for Distinction in Science at Cambridge. In 1974, he was elected as one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and also accepted the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar Visiting Professorship at the California Institute of Technology. In 1979, he was made the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. The co-author Lucy Hawking is the daughter of Stephen Hawking and was born on November 2, 1969. She is an English journalist and novelist and has published two other books: Jaded and Run For Your Life. She has written for The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times, and London Evening Standard and has also worked as a radio journalist.ISBN - 9780385615532
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Pages : 304
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