A Brief History of Time Page #2
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come across some calculations...
as to how long it might take.
At that time,
I think I made a comment...
to one of my friends,
John McClenahan...
"I think that Stephen...
will turn out to be
unusually capable."
I don't think I put it
but I made
some such remark to him...
and he disagreed.
And so we made
a bet on the subject.
In our childish way, we bet...
a bag of sweets on the issue.
And incidentally, I reckon
that my bet has come correct...
and I think
I'm entitled to payment...
which has not yet been made.
The expansion of the universe...
suggested the possibility...
that the universe
had a beginning...
at some time in the past.
The point at which the universe
may have started out...
became known as the Big Bang.
The first year
he was at St. Albans School...
he came, I think,
third from the bottom.
I said, "Well, Stephen..."
do you really have to be
as far down as that?"
And he said, "Well..."
a lot of other people
didn't do much better."
He was quite unconcerned.
Somehow he was
always recognized...
as being very bright...
and in fact they gave him
That was not surprising because
his father used to read him...
Bible stories
from a very early age...
and he knew them all
very well...
and he was quite well-versed
in religious things...
although I don't think he makes
a great deal of practice of it now.
Everybody
used to argue theology.
That's a good, safe subject.
You don't need any facts or...
distracting things like that.
If you go in for arguing...
you know, debating... you can
quite happily debate about anything...
including theology...
and the existence
or otherwise of God.
And then someone gets bored...
or Journey Into Space comes on,
or something like that...
In an unchanging universe...
one can imagine
that God created the universe...
at literally any time
in the past.
On the other hand...
if the universe is expanding...
there may be physical reasons...
why there had to be a beginning.
An expanding universe
does not preclude a creator...
but it does place limits...
on when he might have
carried out his job.
When the family went to India...
it was arranged that Stephen should
come and live with us for a year.
He decided it would be nice...
that we should have...
Scottish dancing in the evening.
Mind you, this was
quite an ordinary house...
but we had rather a lot of room
and a large hall...
and so we bought some records...
and a book about what to do...
and Stephen took charge.
And he insisted
you put on a jacket and a tie.
And then he was
the master of the proceedings.
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