"What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers."
A really useful article discussing modern thought on the big questions. These do not go away, and after thousands of years of discussion there are few absolute conclusions. Hawking's claim the "philosophy is dead" seems incredibly naive...
Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-the-new-philosophy-of-cosmology/251608/
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