Hawking: Why does the universe bother...


	Hawking: Why does the universe bother...

ericw

10-25-2006 10:44 PM

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ericw says:

More great scientific quotes at the source.

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10-25-2006 11:32 PM

haraya

This is great ericw!

10-27-2006 12:20 PM

geeknoob

<blockquote>Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?</blockquote>

42!

11-1-2006 6:56 PM

MyWorld

Great Clip. Also like Hawkings' ...end of search, Churchills' ...stumbling over the truth {how true} and I was surprised by Pope John Paul II. I love it and I have always thought that way myself but he certainly would have been branded or something worse if he had said that in the olden days.

11-1-2006 7:01 PM

Ali_Muslim

Its not the universe that bothers to do anything, its that there is a Being above it that decided it should exist. And also provided the rules and laws by which it would exist. Without that Being , the universe would not be.

11-11-2006 2:10 PM

skwirlinator

We are the universe trying to figure that out!

11-11-2006 3:18 PM

Ali_Muslim

aye???

11-18-2006 8:13 PM

Octane

Unfortunately there is no room in the laws of physics to support such theist notions.

All beings (deities inclusive) must conform to laws. No life, no matter how seemingly omnipotent is beyond the remit physical laws...

11-19-2006 5:49 AM

Ali_Muslim

Where do laws come from Octane?

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