Hawking: The Universe does not need a creator

11 dimensions, vibrating strings, particles, two-dimensional membranes and lots of shapes that are really difficult to picture – these are the things involved in the M-Theory that can explain the creation and the existence of the universe – but the Creator is not involved, according to Harvard professor, physicist, cosmologist and genius thinker Stephen Hawking.

Professor Hawking, in his latest book The Grand Design, claims that there is indeed an almost almighty, invisible and as yet unmeasurable force that is responsible for the creation of the universe, but it is not some divine will, but a force known to man: gravity.

Don’t understand this the wrong way: Professor Hawking and his co-author, CalTech physicist Leonard Mlodinow do not deny the existence of God himself – they just say that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe. They are explaining this on scientific terms only.

Professor Hawking, tied to his wheelchair because of his health condition (he has Lou Gehrig’s disease) says the book is purely scientific, without any theology, and tries to explain two issues: where did the universe come from and why is it tuned so finely to allow us to exist in it.

Professor Hawking’s latest book is out tomorrow, September 7.