What You'll Learn:
Why are we here? What is reality? Why is there something instead of nothing? Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow team up to champion science as humanity’s best hope for answering questions about our existence and the existence of our universe.
Key Insights:
- Science—not philosophy—provides answers to life’s biggest questions.
- The physicist’s dream of a single theory of everything is unlikely to be realized.
- The Big Bang theory is an important, misunderstood scientific milestone.
- We’re not as special as we thought—there are likely other inhabitable planets in other galaxies and universes.
- Scientific determinism is true, but free will remains a useful fiction.
- The law of gravity explains why there is something rather than nothing.