A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog.

Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life.

Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the maths predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse - countless different univ...

De internationale topwetenschapper Thomas Hertog over het ontstaan van het heelal

Thomas Hertog werkte meer dan twintig jaar nauw samen met Stephen Hawking, een van de grootste natuurkundigen van onze tijd. Waar Hawking eerder de meest prangende vragen over het universum beantwoordde in zijn postuum uitgegeven boek De antwoorden op de grote vragen, vertelt Hertog in Het ontstaan van de tijd over hun gezamenlijke onderzoek. Hun centrale vraag: hoe is het mogelijk dat het heelal bij de oerknal ...

'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator

'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times

'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin Rees

Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the universe.

Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary...