Black holes and young universes. Hawking S.

For the first time, a lecture called “Black Holes and Young Universes” was read at the University of California in Berkeley. Steven Hawking supplemented by thoughts on this and related topics, it has become part of a real collection composed of 13 essays and a detailed interview. On these pages, the most famous astrophysicist of our time interprets the most likely models of the universe. This is a continuation of the dialogue with the reader, begun in the book “A Brief History of Time”. The author talks about the imaginary time, how black holes can give life to the young universal, and about the attempts of scientists launched by Albert Einstein, to find a single field theory that could make the macrocosm to predictable.