On the Origin of Time
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| Author | Thomas Hertog |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Cosmology |
| Genre | Scientific literature |
| Publisher | Penguin book, Odile Jacob |
Publication date | 2023 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781911709084 |
| Website | https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/440139/on-the-origin-of-time-by-hertog-thomas/9781911709084 |
On the Origin of Time is a 2023 book by physicist Thomas Hertog about the theories of Stephen Hawking.[1] Hertog is a Belgian cosmologist working at KU Leuven university, who worked extensively with Hawking.[2] He wrote the book at Hawking's request to popularize the top-down cosmological theory that they had developed together.[3]
Synopsis
The cosmological theory that Hawking developed with his PhD student is that the origin of time is the Big Bang and that the laws of physics do not precede the Big Bang, but were born with it. The main hypothesis of their work is that physics laws evolve with time, at least during the very first moment of the Universe and are not transcendent and immutable at the scale of the birth of our Universe as supposed by the theories of Newton and Einstein.
The book's epigraph is "The question of origin hides the origin of the question", a sentence borrowed by Hertog from the Belgian poet François Jacqmin from Liège.[3]
References
- ^ Hertog, Thomas (2023). On the Origin of Time (1st ed.). Penguin. p. 352. ISBN 9781911709084.
- ^ "KU Leuven who's who – Thomas Hertog". www.kuleuven.be.
- ^ a b Vande Meerssche, Fabienne; Poucet, Sarah (25 March 2023). "Les Éclaireurs. L'origine du Temps : la dernière théorie de Stephen Hawking, avec son collaborateur belge Thomas Hertog" [The Pathfinders. The Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's latest theory, with his Belgian collaborator Thomas Hertog]. RTBF (in French). Retrieved 26 March 2023.