PARIS: When Thomas Hertog was first summoned to Stephen Hawking's office in the late 1990s, there was an instant connection between the young Belgian researcher and the legendary British theoretical physicist. 'Something clicked between us,' Hertog said. That connection would continue even as Haw
PARIS: When Thomas Hertog was first summoned to Stephen Hawking's office in the late 1990s, there was an instant connection between the young Belgian researcher and the legendary British theoretical physicist.That connection would continue even as Hawking's debilitating disease ALS robbed him of his last ways to communicate, allowing the pair to complete a new theory that aims to turn how science looks at the universe on its head.
"The universe we observe appears designed," Hawking told Hertog, communicating via a clicker connected to a speech machine. One"trendy" answer to this problem has been the multiverse, an idea that has recently become popular in the movie industry, Hertog said. The multiverse and even A Brief History of Time were"attempts to describe the creation and evolution of our universe from what Stephen would call a 'God's eye perspective'," Hertog said.
"It's impossible to disentangle" which parts of the final theory came from himself or Hawking, Hertog said, adding that many of the ideas had been developed between the pair over the years.Their theory is focused on what happened in the first moments after the Big Bang.
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