A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

St Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 BC for the creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis.

‘Why is the universe the way we see it?’ The answer is then simple: if it had been different, we would not be here!

EINSTEIN’S CONNECTION WITH THE POLITICS OF THE nuclear bomb is well known: he signed the famous letter to President Franklin Roosevelt that persuaded the United States to take the idea seriously, and he engaged in postwar efforts to prevent nuclear war.