One of the most brilliant scientists of our time, renowned not only for the boldness of his ideas but also for the clarity and wit of his expression, Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of research, where truth is stranger than fiction, to explain in simple terms the principles that govern the Universe. Magnificent Color illustrations serve as landmarks on this journey through a Wonderland where particles, membranes and strings move in eleven dimensions, where black holes evaporate, and where the cosmic seed from which our Universe grew was a tiny nut.

The book-magazine consists of illustrations (215), with text inserts. Therefore, its size is larger than a standard fb2 book. The illustrations have been cleaned and prepared for devices with screens from 6" (800x600) or more; CoolReader is recommended for reading. Please DO NOT recompress the illustrations, as they are already compressed to the maximum (somewhere Png with 15 colors or more, somewhere jpg with a progressive palette from 50–90). It makes no sense to make the illustrations smaller - the text on the illustrations will be unreadable, and secondly, this is the reason why the book was redone from scratch - the library only had a version with small illustrations. poor quality. Max size of pictures: 760 (height) x 570 (width). The book was recognized from ~300mb pdf, some of the pictures were replaced with identical ones from the network (better quality), some were combined because sometimes one illustration was on two pages of the book. The sequence of illustrations in the text was also corrected - in the Russian original they were 2 pages earlier, here the illustration comes immediately after the link in the text.