The meaning of life

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Forum / Stephen Hawking's latest answer
# Pathfinder - 2010-09-03 12:11
Hawking's new book, The Grand Design, written together with Leonard Mlodinow, will be published next week (36th week 2010).

Some extracts:

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist."

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Purchase the book for further explanations :)
# Anon - 2012-02-21 03:16
The only problem I see with this is that the premise is based on the law of gravity; it does not explain why things are the way they are! (i.e. The laws of the universe show God was not necessary for the creation of the universe; but in what fashion were the laws of nature established? Why was it not simply the case that gravity happened to be a little stronger, or not existent at all?) If Stephen Hawking has found a way to explain the origin of the four fundamental forces then he will surely rock the world of science with this publication!
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