“Hawking spoke to a packed audience in Zellerbach Hall about how Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum theory explained the creation of the universe.” — article in the Daily Californian. Alas, not quite so. At the lecture Hawking explained how he *thought* the universe started:
According to Hawking, the origin of the universe can be depicted as bubbles in a steam in boiling water. Small bubbles that appear and then collapse represent mini universes that expand only to disintegrate. / A few “bubbles,” Hawking said, will grow to a certain size until they are safe from collapse, and will begin to develop galaxies, stars and eventually human life.
Cool. So, it wasn’t sneezed out of the nose of the Great Green Arkleseizureafter all. Hawking’s lecture can be seen in this Webcast.
