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What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 2: No Boundary, No Problem


Hawking faced a question with no answer hiding behind it. The best boundary condition for the universe, he decided, was that there was no boundary at all. To make that statement into physics, he had to do something deeply strange to time.

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