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Universe created itself, Hawking

stephen hawkingBritish theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has said in a new book that the universe created it self as the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and it’s not a creation of God.

The big titled "The Grand Design," co-authored with U. S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow rejects the ides that God created the universe. "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going," he wrote. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking wrote in the book. Hawking become famous for his book named "A Brief History of Time," published in 1988 which was about the creation of the universe and included his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.

His comments are on a different line from his earlier comments about the universe. He has worked since 1974 on combining the General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," the book read.