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On the origin of time : Stephen Hawking's final theory / Thomas Hertog.

On the origin of time : Stephen Hawking's final theory / Thomas Hertog.
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ISBN 9781911709091 (paperback)
Name Hertog, Thomas author.
Title On the origin of time : Stephen Hawking's final theory / Thomas Hertog.
Published London : Torva, 2023.
©2023
Description xxiv, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the maths predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse -- countless different universes, most of which were far too bizarre to harbour life. Holed up in the theoretical physics department at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking and his friend and collaborator Thomas Hertog worked shoulder to shoulder for twenty years on a new quantum theory of the cosmos. As their discoveries took them deeper into the big bang, they were startled to find a deeper level of evolution in which the physical laws themselves transform and simplify until particles, forces, and even time itself fades away. Once upon a time, perhaps, there was no time. This led them to a revolutionary idea -- the laws of physics are not set in stone but are born and co-evolve as the universe they govern takes shape. On the Origin of Time takes the reader on a quest to understand questions bigger than our universe, peering into the extreme quantum physics of black holes and the big bang and drawing on the latest developments in string theory. As Hawking's final days drew near, the two collaborators published a final theory proposing their radical new Darwinian perspective on the origins of our universe. Hertog offers a striking new vision that ties together, more deeply than ever, the nature of the universe's birth with our existence. Their theory profoundly transforms the way we think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately prove Hawking's biggest legacy.
Subjects Hawking, Stephen, -- 1942-2018
Quantum theory
Cosmogony
Cosmology
Astrophysics
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