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Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe.
The concept is explored in The Grand Design, which is written by Hawking and his fellow physicist Leonard Mlodiwmis and is scheduled to be published by Bantam Press on September 9.
The Grand Design, which the publishers call Hawking's first major work in nearly a decade, challenges Isaac Newton's theory God must have been involved in creation because our solar system couldn't have come out of chaos simply through nature.
But Hawking says it isn't that simple. To understand the universe, it's necessary to know both how and why it behaves the way it does, calling the pursuit "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing," the excerpt says. "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to ... set the Universe going."
美联社9月2日报道：著作家霍金称创造宇宙不需要上帝
万物需要造物主吗？英国物理学家、数学家斯蒂芬-霍金说不需要，他在自己的新书中称，宇宙的诞生不需要上帝。
这一观点来自于新书《伟大的设计》，由霍金与物理学家伦纳德-穆勒迪诺合著，并将于9月9日出版。
出版商称《伟大的设计》是霍金近10年来的首部重要作品，该书挑战了牛顿的理论，即上帝可能是这个宇宙的创造者，因为太阳系不可能从混沌中自己产生。
霍金可不认为万物起源有牛顿想的那么简单。要了解宇宙，就有必要知道它是如何形成，又为什么是现在这个样子，而霍金将这种探索称作“对生命、宇宙以及万物的终极追问”。
“由于万有引力这这样的定律存在，宇宙就能够从虚无中自己创造出自己，”他说。“自发创造是万物产生、宇宙存在以及我们存在的原因。没有必要拜托上帝......让宇宙运转。”
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