Brief Answers to the Big Questions

This scientific book is written by Stephen Hawking and translated by Hussein Husseini, the Kurdish translation is one of Xazalnus Publications.

The book includes an introduction by Professor Kip Soren, in which he describes his first encounter with Hawking and goes over the ideas and topics covered in this book.

Comparing himself to Hawking’s, he states: “I avoid big questions because I don’t have the ability, intelligence and confidence to deal with them. On the contrary, Stephen always turned towards the big questions, finding out whether they are deeply rooted in science, or not. He had the necessary skills, intelligence and confidence needed to do this.”

This book is a collection of answers to these big questions. Answers Hawking was working on when he was reaching his death. The answers to six of his questions are deeply rooted in his scientific knowledge, the questions include: ( Is there a God? How did everything begin? Is it possible to predict the future? What’s inside the black hole? Is it possible to travel in time? How can we shape the future?)

However, his answers to the other four questions cannot be strictly rooted in his scientific knowledge. Nevertheless, his answers show his level of intelligence and creativity.

To answer the question; “how did it all begin?” he discusses the origin of the universe and what the future behavior of the most probable histories of the universe will be. There are various possibilities that depend on the amount of matter that exists in the universe.

If it is more than a momentary amount, the gravitational attraction between the galaxies will slow down their expansion and eventually they will move towards each other, gather in the same place and the great collision will begin. This will be the end of the universe in real time.

He also talks about black holes, stating that a black hole appears to be formed by the collision of a large number of different stars. In fact, if the quantum effects are ignored, the number of them formed can be infinite, because black holes can be formed by the collision of infinitely large clouds of infinitely low-mass particles.