The Grand Design

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By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

When and how did the universe begin, why are we here, and does the apparent design of the universe require a designer?

Hawking and Mlodinow argue that it does not, and set out the reasoning: model-dependent realism, the idea that there is no single picture of reality independent of the theory used to describe it, and M-theory, which they present as the best candidate for a complete account.

First published 2010