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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 12: Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, University of Cambridge as he and Yuri Milner host press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation)[/caption]
Hawking was bothered by the question of the multiverse theory for a number of years, having detailed his 'no boundary theory' back in 1983 alongside James Hartle. This described how the earth came into being through the Big Bang, but also predicted that the event would have been accompanied by numerous other 'Big Bangs', therefore creating the multiverse.
Carlos Frenk, who is a professor of Cosmology at the University of Durham, has argued that the work is exactly "what cosmology needed", stating that finding the evidence would completely change our perception of the cosmos. He also told the Sunday Times that the prospect of finding existence of another universe is "breathtaking" .
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