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If you want to enjoy the upcoming PBS TV science series "Stephen Hawking's Universe," read the book.
The book is less infuriating.
That's too bad, because in all of science - indeed, in all of human thinking - there are few things as profound, wondrous and fascinating as the efforts to understand our universe - how it began, what it's like and where it is going. This field of study, called cosmology, has a deep, rich history, and it has led modern scientists into bizarre, mind-bending research and speculation.
Those incredible ideas are in the ambitious six-part series, which premieres at 9 p.m. Monday on KTCA, Channel 2. But to follow the ideas and science all the way through the series you'll need a great deal of patience and an occasional glass of good wine to mellow you out.
The series seems afraid it might scare you with too much science. So just when you are in need of a visual representation of what a scientist is talking about, the screen...