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- Can there be a lawless universe (according to Stephen Hawking)?
I got a phrase from a book that Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy Hawking published in 2011. The book is "George and the Big Bang" which is a science fiction book prepared for children.
I read a phrase on that book that interested me. It was:
"Perhaps there are many universes, each with laws different from our own, and maybe some with no laws to speak of at all."
I thought that this was probably an exaggeration or something like that since the book is aimed for children. But in a recent article in the Scientific American (https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...universe-does-not-forget-and-neither-will-we/), he seems to imply that nature does not have laws at all:
"If black holes are “wells of forgetfulness,” as Hawking put it recently, in which the past is lost for good, can nature be said to have laws at all? “It’s like the universe losing its cell phone,” Hawking said. “Worse than that—losing its memory""
My main question is: It is known that Stephen Hawking was a proponent of the Multiverse hypotheses, but did he really think that even universes with no laws could exist? Or that was an exaggerated statement to impress the children that would read this book?
I read a phrase on that book that interested me. It was:
"Perhaps there are many universes, each with laws different from our own, and maybe some with no laws to speak of at all."
I thought that this was probably an exaggeration or something like that since the book is aimed for children. But in a recent article in the Scientific American (https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...universe-does-not-forget-and-neither-will-we/), he seems to imply that nature does not have laws at all:
"If black holes are “wells of forgetfulness,” as Hawking put it recently, in which the past is lost for good, can nature be said to have laws at all? “It’s like the universe losing its cell phone,” Hawking said. “Worse than that—losing its memory""
My main question is: It is known that Stephen Hawking was a proponent of the Multiverse hypotheses, but did he really think that even universes with no laws could exist? Or that was an exaggerated statement to impress the children that would read this book?