Origin of the Universe - Stephen Hawking (1 of 5)

Stephen Hawking gives a lecture on the Hawking-Hartle no boundary universe.

Lecture given to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley on March 13 2007.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/bound.html

A Brief History of Time was more than a best seller. In it, Hawking parted from the conventions of natural science to write in a more stylistic unfettered manner: dramatic, poetic and prophetic. "At the big bang and other singularities, all the laws would have broken down, so God would still have had complete freedom to choose what happened and how the universe began." Anecdotal trivialities? Perhaps not. Hawking is a performance artist.