Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
- Hawking’s final book is geared toward a popular audience.
- Each of the book’s 10 chapters is posed as a question, such as “How did it all begin?”
- Hawking claims there is no God, time travel could be possible and intelligent aliens exist.
The final book from Stephen Hawking, the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist, was released Tuesday under the title Brief Answers to the Big Questions.
Hawking, who lived most of his life with the neurodegenerative disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), was still working on the book when he died in March.
The work was completed by his family and publishers, who filled in the gaps by drawing on an “enormous personal archive” of essays, interviews and articles from Hawking’s half-century career.Brief Answers to the Big Questions is divided into 10 chapters, each of which is posed as a question: “What is inside a black hole?”, “How did it all begin?” and “Is there a God?” Hawking’s answer to the God question is a resounding “no.”
“There is no God. No one directs the universe,” he writes. “For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.”
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