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BATTLING OVER BABY UNIVERSE

ondon's Fleet Street has dubbed it "a battle over the birth of the universe," and Stanford was the scene of the latest skirmish.

Andrei Linde, a Stanford physics professor, and his prominent Cambridge University counterpart, Stephen Hawking (author of the best-seller, A Brief History of Time), are at odds over Hawking's new theory for the origin of the universe, co-inspired by his Cambridge colleague Neil Turok.

Stephen Hawking explained his theory on the origin of the universe during a lecture at Stanford.

Hawking and Turok propose that the universe began as an "instanton," a pea-sized cocktail of space, time, matter and energy that exploded and transformed itself into an infinite universe, one that continues to grow and expand forever.

Linde/Hawking Debate (Plain text)

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