Time Magazine sells a supermarket coffee table booklet “Great
Scientists: The Geniuses and Visionaries Who Transformed Our World.” The Editor
is not named.
The book starts out with a lot of material on Stephen
Hawking (by Brian Greene, who passed away of ALS in 2018 at age 76, living
extraordinarily long since it started when he was in college.
Hawking came up with the theory that black holes may not be
completely black, but could evaporate with Hawking radiation. That could
theoretically mean that (mini) black holes could store and retransmit
information (about someone’s life).
Hawking also believed that the Universe might have started
with a singularity inside a black hole.
On p. 72 the booklet presents Paul Crutzen, who discovered the
ozone holes which, adjunct to climate change, can threaten future generations.
On p 31, the booklet shows how Muhammad al-Khwarizmi
invented Algebra I around 800 AD.
It would be nice if a booklet like this could cover Jack
Andraka’s “Science Fair” which appears to have invented a cheaper blood test
for many cancers (not just pancreatic).
I would be nice also to cover the work of Taylor Wilson, who
invented a fusion reactor in 2008 at age 14.
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