A novel yes, a popular work, not

PhD in physics, I bought this book a bit of curiosity and a lot of weakness, fearing the worst
After reaching about half, it is clear that my intuition was not far from being established if laspect romance can be enough to make them want to know what happened, the scientific part is at least questionable.
I do not know whether the Portuguese version is another outfit, but what that it may, the French translation is poor (if the translator Carlos Batista had done its job, it would be a minimum inquired about scientific terminology: in physics we do not speak of strong / weak forces, but high / low dinteractions; I never heard of the problem (ir) solvable (ouch, ouch, ouch, nothing but write it it hurts!), and "solve" could advantageously be replaced by "solving".
On the substance itself, the Universe has not 15 million but 15 billion of years (13.7 to be exact), Laplace lived straddling the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, not in the seventeenth. The scene of dastrophysique lecture is totally implausible and discourse on the Big Bang theory does not hold water: no physicist worthy of the name today nen talks like dun dun beginning but as insuperable horizon to laune current physical theories (relativity and quantum mechanics).
On another note, I still do not understand how the agent of the CIA Bellamy may have spied on Einstein in 1951 and having sixty of years at current lépoque I thought that child labor was prohibited.
Jarrête there fresh And again, I havent read 300 pages.
No doubt the anecdotal and few readers interested in science requires rigor sweep these criticisms of a backhand. Personally, I find that it is a shame to pass a book as a reflection of current physical theories, so that it is filled with against-sense, dapproximations, of errors and dinterprétations smokers. If we really want to inform themselves about modern physical theories, there is sufficient douvrages extension or magazines available in the market without having to seek knowledge in this book. Otherwise, if you want to read a novel, so why not. But then you have to stop there, and do not seek anything else.