Hawking Page #6

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- Then is the world one.

A goodly one; in which there are many confines,

wards and dungeons. Denmark being o' of the worst.

We think not so, my Lord.

Why then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing

either good or bad, but thinking makes it so:

to me it is a prison.

Why then your ambition makes it one;

'tis too narrow for your mind.

Oh God, I cold be bounded in a nut shell,

and count myself a king of infinite space,

were it not that I have bad dreams.

What are you thinking?

- I was...thinking about Einstein and relativity.

- Oh!

- And stars.

- Oh.

It's possible for a perfect star to collapse into nothingness.

If it's a perfect sphere then it can collapse

and become infinitely dense,

so dense that everything is pulled down into nothing.

But the conditions have to be right.

What conditions?

If it is a perfect sphere, if the place be very moving,

if the evening's very beautiful, the conditions have to be ideal.

It's possible for the pull of gravity

to stop everything escaping.

Everything in nothing.

- Oh no!

- Wasn't that bad, was it?

My bag, I left it in the theatre.

Ah...

Shall we?

Oh we can see a star, look.

There, you see?

Found it!

Hamlet doesn't act. That's his fatal flaw,

if he acted, if he did something -

- It would be a shorter play.

- He'd save his life.

Everybody wants Fred.

I've been thinking about a subject for you.

- Faraday rotation.

- Boring.

- Mach's principle?

- Formulations I've seen are not well defined.

- They're my formulations.

- Action!

The universe expands.

As galaxies move apart, new galaxies are formed

to fill the gaps left behind.

The new replaces the old at just the right rate.

Nothing changes.

Wherever you are in the universe; Andromeda,

Mars or Scarborough, it always looks the same.

Because it is the same.

I want to do something significant.

The universe is a steady state universe.

- It is very attractive, steady state, right?

- Cut! Thank you.

- And reassuring.

- Yes.

Maybe it's attractive because its reassuring.

Emotionally its far harder to conceive of a universe that's started,

a universe that hasn't always been around.

- Einstein?

- Look what he did when his work looked

like it was predicting there was a beginning to the universe.

He ran away from the prospect to the beginning.

No because he saw that the beginning would mean

a breakdown of all the laws of science.

How can science explain something that isn't there?

That's the thing about the idea of a Big Bang.

The thing about the idea of a Big Bang

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