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Originally Posted by HarryT
The title is "Cosmos". I thought it was a typo when you wrote it the first time, but not the second  .
Sadly - and I don't know if it's the same in the US - many people in Britain would proudly boast how little of "A Brief History of Time" they'd managed to get through, as though stupidity were a badge of honour  . |
Argh. My oldest cat's name is Cosmo (as in Cosmo Topper), so that's what my fingers typed.
I think that it was more talked about back when it first came out. Of course, I'm a programmer and there are a lot of science nerds in that profession. I've never heard anyone brag about how little they understood of it. It's really not all that hard. Sure the underlying science and mathematics is difficult for a non scientist to understand, but I thought that Hawking did a good job of making the general theory understandable.