The United States Tax Code is incredibly complex, hopelessly tangled, and the a notorius generator of coarse epithets. But it's all there. With patience, intelligence, and a willingness to read and re-read, you can work it out. You can't do that with Universe because it's not all there. It is as though Mr. Hawking's word processor had a "make it fit" key that did so by deleting every second paragraph and maybe a few random sentences to boot.The book is a beauty. Its illustrators should win a prize. It appears, however, Mr. Hawking never explained anything to them either, and they just decided to do their own thing to get paid...