In Search Of A Cosmic Super-theory

The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow The Hypercomputer named Deep Thought in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comes up with an answer to "The Ultimate Question Of Life" after nine years of calculations. The answer is 42. In The Grand Design you are warned at the beginning that the answer is a lot more complicated. However, like Stephen Hawking’s other works in popular science, here too the language is simplified for non-specialist readers. You cannot, though, afford to think that neutrons and protons are names of aliens. The Grand Design has been co-authored by Leonard Mlodinow, who had also co-authored “A Briefer History of Time” with Hawking. Leonard, a physicist, has also written for Star Trek: The Next Generation . Hawking’s most popular work, “The Brief History of Time”, was published in 1988. The work explored a range of cosmology subjects like the Big Bang, Black Holes and light cones. It ended on the note that a unified theory of...