In his 2010 book The Grand Design, celebrated cosmologist Stephen Hawking sets out to continue what he started in 1988's A Brief History of Time - trying to explain where the universe came from and where it is going. Hawking now claims that a single "theory of everything" is tantalizingly close, and explores several enduring mysteries with the hope that he can provide some answers. Why is there a universe? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why are the laws of nature...
Published on October 19, 2011 21:05