Neil Turok: Most Theorists are WRONG! (#262)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Hawking's No Boundary Proposal
Hawking was always looking for the very simplest way to explain anything. And his no boundary proposal is an extremely beautiful idea. But when you calculate it in detail as we did, this would be three or four years ago, we found it is mathematically inconsistent. So now Hawking to his great credit was open to the criticism. I invited me to a private retreat. He didn't argue against it. If you read the quote in not enough book about our work on no boundary, you have to come away saying Hawking was amazingly scientific and generous gracious gracious gracious.
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