Thomas Hertog

Cosmologiost and close collaborator with Stephen Hawking Professor Thomas Hertog talks about working with his friend and about their theory that proposes a radical new Darwinian perspective on the origins of the universe.

Hertog worked shoulder to shoulder with Hawking for 20 years on a new quantum theory of the cosmos. They delved deeper into the big bang and were startled to find a deeper level of evolution in which the physical laws themselves transform and simplify until particles, forces and even time fade away. Hertog says this Darwinian perspective on the origins of the universe may prove to be Hawking’s biggest legacy.

Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist. He is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leuven, where the big bang was first conceived.