I'm glad you're enjoying the amazing discoveries that seem to be coming faster and faster in these fields. There are many ambassadors of science who try to engage the lay public.

Some of my favorites are Brian Greene, Brian Cox, Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye. There are many others that do a wonderful job of explaining scientific discoveries in common terminology and analogies that we can understand. Carl Sagan was my all-time favorite.

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I've read 14 books over the last year and wish I had been smart enough at math to pursue a career in the field. Awesome stuff.

Don't worry about the math. Even Einstein had his difficulties with it. His great talent was having the ability to do thought experiments.

That's what has made Stephen Hawking a great physicist, too. His math is far better than was Einstein's but it's his thought experiments that have given mankind so much knowledge about black holes.

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Posted by sunseeker

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Posted on 7/12/16 at 5:42 am to Kentucker

Yeah I greatly respect what every one of those guys have given to the scientific community. Some of my favorites as well. Sagan was a big influence on my fascination with how the Universe works. I spent a lot of time reading his wisdom when I was young.

Hawking really has given us a much bigger understanding of black holes and I can't wait for our earth size telescope to reveal our monster in the center of the milky way.

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