The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking

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The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen Hawking

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About Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS (8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018) was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

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Native Name: Stephen William Hawking

Alternative Names: Hawking • S. W. Hawking • stephen • S. Hawking

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It is not even clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.