Abstract:Following the recent death of the famous physicist S. Hawking, the question of his contribution to science has appeared with new urgency. Despite his known handicap, he was immensely active in the field of physics but also in the areas of philosophy and theology. The aim of the present paper is to analyze his contributions related to the nature of the Universe, its beginning and possible end, as well as the consequences stemming from this knowledge for philosophy and theology. We start with Hawking´s discoveri… Show more
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