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Old 17-09-2012, 11:01 PM
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Hawking is a brilliant theoretical physicist; his Black Hole Entropy Equation is most elegant. However, his Black Hole Radiation paradox (that information disappears once matter crosses the event horizon of a black hole) was disproved by Susskind. He responded not by suggesting that they were both wrong, and went on to postulate that the information does disappear in universes where black holes exist, but that this is balanced out in universes where black holes do not exist. Many physicists theorize "undetectable" forces such as extra-dimensions, dark matter, God particles (Higgs Boson), and multiverses as ways to get the mathematics to work out; even Einsteins equations break down at point singularities (such as black holes).

Hawking's theory that the universe came from nothing (or that nothing existed before time existed) arises from yet another undetectable force he calls negative energy to explain a balance of equal amounts of positive and negative energy yielding "nothing". If "nothing more" he creates ripples that perhaps will yield new discoveries by others.

Philosophically speaking; if you were to consider "God" to be all that is unseen and not understood, then even to a theoretical physicist "God" will always exist :)
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