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Stephen Hawking’s big ambition and the secret sauce that kept it just beyond his reach

Stephen Hawking’s final paper was published this week. Like his last book, The Grand Design, it is about how the universe began. In 1979, he became the seventeenth Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. His modest aim was to understand the universe, the whole thing, from beginning to end. He missed his mark by […]

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The Problem of the Cosmic Constant

In 1917, Einstein’s tuning up GR. In his head he wanders round the universe trying out assumptions at its edges, checking consequences, killing anything that will not fly. He still thinks of the universe as having no beginning. He still pictures it as in a static state. His equation’s giving him a headache. It describes […]

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The Origin of The Universe