{"id":1981,"date":"2008-04-07T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/07\/stephen-hawking-asking-big-que\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:06:23","slug":"stephen-hawking-asking-big-que","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/stephen-hawking-asking-big-que\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-55da16d388d7bdf1c909c9c5666d9318-hawkings.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-55da16d388d7bdf1c909c9c5666d9318-hawkings.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe &#8212; How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? &#8212; and discusses how we might go about answering them.Stephen Hawking&#8217;s scientific investigations have shed light on the origins of the cosmos, the nature of time and the ultimate fate of universe. His bestselling books for a general audience have given an appreciation of physics to millions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/STEPHENHAWKING-2008_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe &#8212; How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? &#8212; and discusses how we might go about answering them.Stephen Hawking&#8217;s scientific investigations have shed light on the origins of the cosmos, the nature of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/stephen-hawking-asking-big-que\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-vX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}