Stephen Hawking: Running History Backwards

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We think of history as a relentless progression forward in time. The universe, though, doesn't have just a single history; instead, it has every possible history. We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.

This talk by Professor Hawking is intended for a general audience.

Stephen Hawking holds the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge University (the professorship once held by Sir Isaac Newton) and is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech. For the past 45 years he has been a world leader in research on black holes, the birth of the universe, and the nature of space, time, and gravity.

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