Stephen Hawking’s final theory was that the universe is holographic. There is another way to think about the origins of time. The *information* is constant. Each time the information is compressed all the way (Big Bang), it begins to expand all the way. The laws of physics—the code, the DNA—are the same. (See the work of physicist James Gates.) What changes are the effects of free will. In some universe, the 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler succeeds; Anne Frank is alive today and has written many books and has children and great-grand-children who all call her “Oma.” In some universe, the angle of the car crash was different; Princess Diana is alive today and walks with a cane. In these models, a universe is a loop of time. The holographic boundary or “end of time” (the speed of light) is the end from which we start.
Stephen Hawking died 14 March 2018. His ashes are buried in Westminster Abbey in between Darwin and Newton.
Thomas Hertog at The Royal Institution: “Maybe Lemaître was wrong … Maybe our Big Bang is just one of many Big Bangs, maybe there’s an even bigger space … a multiverse, with all sorts of different universes.”
