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His life and universe5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Today, scientists instead point to the laws of physics. In the old days, it was thought that the apparent design of the cosmos meant there had to be a designer – a God. He made me feel as if we were writing our own creation story, which, in a sense, we did. Being around him, one could not fail to be influenced by his determination and optimism that we could tackle mystifying questions. Our shared scientific quest meant that we inevitably grew close. “To boldly go where Star Trek fears to tread” was his motto – and also his screen saver. The prospect - or hope - to crack the riddle of cosmic design drove much of Hawking’s research in cosmology. Yet this was exactly where Hawking liked to venture. Questions about the ultimate origin of the cosmos, or universe, take physics out of its comfort zone. ![]() Our answer is being published in a new book, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. ![]() ![]() The enigma at the centre of our research throughout this period was how the Big Bang could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. What started out as a doctoral project evolved over some 20 years into an intense collaboration that ended only with his passing on March 14 2018. The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998. ![]()
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