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The interview is in English. OFFNews and Iskra Angelova invited Thomas Hertog to their podcast in Sofia, Bulgaria.
"We create the universe just as it creates us. We are on the verge of a new revolution in the study of the beginning of the world," the great scientist said in the studio.
The Sofia Science Festival has begun, and with it came out the new edition of "On the Origin of Time. The Last Theory of Stephen Hawking" by Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator and biographer - Thomas Hertog.
The world-famous scientist arrived in Sofia in an unusual way - by night train from Istanbul and first gave an interview to Iskra Angelova and OFFNews, for which we are especially grateful to "Beautiful Science" and Ciela Publishing House.
Pleasant, polite and very open, Hertog cannot fall into the typical cliché of a scientist - he freely communicates, assumes different hypotheses, passionately argues his unusual views and reflects with pleasure for more than an hour. A conversation with him is a feast for the mind. The interview treats many interesting issues - both Hawking's personality itself, his way of communicating, the non-verbal contact they developed in the later years of their collaboration, which lasted 25 years, and their revolutionary theory about the origin of the world, time and our (supposedly) only intelligent and evolved species in the universe... About God or his absence. On the way philosophy enters science. About the art of the exact sciences. About artificial intelligence and the likelihood of our self-destruction as a species. As well as about the inexplicable and pure genius of Stephen Hawking himself, and about the freedom of his mind, imprisoned in the cage of a body utterly inadequate, diseased and impervious to the commands of his brain.
Thomas Hertog has been by his side all these years, and together the two have worked on Hawking's theory of the Origin of Time. All the way back to the creation of the world and the primordial explosion known as the Big Bang.
Later Thomas Hertog met with the Sofia audience on May 11, when he signed books and gave a mesmerizing lecture in the Cosmos Hall of Sofia Tech Park in front of a packed full house, as part of the Sofia Scientific Festival, organized by the NGO Beautiful Science.
There he presented a completely different perspective on the history of the universe, the origin of time and the laws of physics.
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