A wonderful book about Stephen Hawkings biggest legacy SpectatorTruly mindstretching... Immensely rewarding The TimesThis 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 ReesStephen Hawkings closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstars final thoughts on the universe.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 coevolve as the universe they...

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: PDZ; Weight: 368 g; Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 24

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