14 DAY TRIAL // One of the most famous scientists in the world says that given the laws of gravity, there was no need of a divine intervention for the creation of the Universe.
Stephen Hawking says in The Grand Design, a book co-written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow and appearing September 9, that the Big Bang was inevitable because of the law of gravity.
The extracts printed today write: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.
“It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”
If in his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking seemed to have accepted the role of God in the creation of the Universe, in the new text he contradicts Sir Isaac Newton's theory that the universe must have been designed by God, as it could not have appeared from chaos, and he says that a creator was “not necessary”, as The Guardian also reports.
And the argument for these new statements is the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than our Sun.
He says that “that makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions - the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass - far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings.”
Hawking does not exclude the possibility of life on other planets neither whole new universes, or what it is called “multiverse”, reports Daily Mail.
Physicists have long searched for a theory that could unite quantum theory and matter at sub-atomic levels with gravity, and explain the way that objects interact.
The professor says that the M-theory, a form of string theory, might be what physicists are looking for and what “Einstein was hoping to find”.
He adds that “the fact that we human beings – who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature – have been able to come this close to an understanding of the laws governing us and our universe is a great triumph.”
Hawking resigned as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University last year after 30 years of teaching.