Brief Answers to the Big Questions

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ''A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'' DAILY TELEGRAPH ''Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'' GUARDIAN The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe''s biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is there a God? How did it all begin? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? How do we shape the future? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonise space? Is time travel possible? Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary