What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a…

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?...Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time · 1988

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Laws of physics Existence of the universe Origin of the universe The universe

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1988

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Stephen Hawking

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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