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'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator
'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary
individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our
current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin Rees Stephen
Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's
final thoughts on the cosmos. 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. In order to solve this mystery, Hawking studied the big bang
origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when
the math predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse -
countless different universes, most of which would be 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 on this problem for twenty years,
developing a new theory of the cosmos that could account for the
emergence of life. Peering into the extreme quantum physics of
cosmic holograms and venturing far back in time, 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. This discovery 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. As Hawking's
final days drew near, the two collaborators published their theory,
which proposed a radical new Darwinian perspective on the origins
of our universe. On the Origin of Time offers a striking new vision
of the universe's birth that will profoundly transform the way we
think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately
prove to be Hawking's greatest legacy.
"We create the Universe as much as it creates us." - Stephen
Hawking & Thomas Hertog How did the Universe begin? Will it
ever end? The cosmos and Man's place in it have fascinated humans
for thousands of years. These mind-bending cosmic questions keep
scientists awake at night, but also fuel the imagination and
fantasy of artists. This unique book combines the insights of
scientists and visual artists, offering a magnificent overview of
the visualisation of the Universe from the Neolithic to the
present. In addition, dozens of stunning modern and contemporary
artworks engage in a dialogue with the Big Bang theory in its
various forms. Professor Georges Lemaitre formulated his
revolutionary theory about the origin of the Universe in 1931 at
the University of Leuven. In 2021, our ideas about this Big Bang
and the cosmos as a whole are still evolving. Our astonishment and
desire to visualise what we are unable to comprehend fully,
however, remain unchanged. With enlightening contributions from
Barbara Baert, Abdelkader Benali, Thomas Hertog, Hannah Redler
Hawes, Jan Van der Stock, Annelies Vogels, and others.
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.
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