‘Physics itself disappears’: Thomas Hertog and Stephen Hawking producing his final, most radical theory of everything | livescience.com

Stephen Hawking photographed at at Emmanuel College on September 19, 2013 in Cambridge. (Image credit: Karwai Tang/Getty Images)

Thomas Hertog tells us how he collaborated with Stephen Hawking on his final theorem — a Darwinian revolution in physics that explains the origin of time. Story by Ben Turner published in livescience, June 11 2024

Source: ‘Physics itself disappears’: How theoretical physicist Thomas Hertog helped Stephen Hawking produce his final, most radical theory of everything

As you go back in time and evolution to the beginning of everything preceded by nothing, you find that the laws of physics began along with everything else in lockstep. Makes sense, doesn’t it? With nothing there, there are no laws of physics. With the universe evolving, the laws of physics begin to appear. There couldn’t possible be any more a plausible a theory of everything in my book.