“The problem for Hawking was his struggle to understand how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life,” says Hertog, a cosmologist currently based at KU Leuven University in Belgium.Įxamples of these life-supporting conditions include the delicate balance that exists between particle forces that allow chemistry and complex molecules to exist. Hertog will outline its origins and themes at a Cambridge festival lecture on 31 March. Next month, five years after Hawking’s death, that book – On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s final theory – will be published in the UK. Hawking and Hertog then began working on a new way to encapsulate their latest thinking about the universe. Thus one of the biggest-selling scientific books in publishing history, with worldwide sales credited at more than 10m, was consigned to the waste bin by its own author.
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