![]() What place, then, for a creator?” (Later, in The Grand Design, Hawking would go much further, explicitly arguing in favor of an atheistic worldview.) The deity question reappears at the very end of A Brief History, where Hawking muses on the quest for a “theory of everything.” To find such a theory, he says, would be “the ultimate triumph of human reason-for then we would know the mind of God. “But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither a beginning or an end: it would simply be. “So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator,” he writes. ![]() There’s also provocation: When he explains his theory of the origin of the universe-a view in which neither time nor space have a beginning-he intentionally draws a contrast with traditional religious belief. But Hawking’s voice is friendly, congenial, often funny. Sure, there are some tough parts-I will confess that the notion of “imaginary time” slowed me down in Chapter 8. If anyone was expecting a dry tally of facts and formulas, they were in for a surprise. It’s a remarkably engaging, witty book.īut if you did dive in, you were rewarded. In A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking sets out the theories that have been used to explain the cosmos throughout history, from the heliocentric model to. ![]() If anyone was expecting a dry tally of facts and formulas, they were in for a surprise. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book on theoretical cosmology by English physicist Stephen Hawking. ![]()
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