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Published online 21 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060619-6
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Hawking rewrites history... backwards
To understand the Universe we must start from the here and now.
How did the Universe begin? Many scientists would regard this as one of the most profound questions of all. But to Stephen Hawking, who has perhaps come closer than anyone to answering it, the question doesn't in fact even exist.
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