Stephen Hawking Raises The Big Questions And Some Answers Of The Universe

A TEDBlog Stephen Hawking Asking Big Questions about the universe: on TED.com.

In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them.(Recorded March 2008 in Monterey, California, and in Cambridge, UK.

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The TEDBlog was also kind enough to point out that the answer was there all along

In his TEDTalk released today, physicist Stephen Hawking asks Big Questions about life, the universe and everything. His talk was recorded at Cambridge, in a borrowed classroom -- whose well-used blackboard happens to contain the Answer to life, the universe and everything. It's visible in the upper-right-hand corner of the shot above, and in this inset:



Thanks for the tip, Robert Todd!