Stephen Hawking, on PBS-TV in 2016, made mistakes. We all do.

In 2016 on PBS-TV Stephen Hawking rhetorically asks, “Where did the universe come from?” 

Just two years before he died, he got to narrate a series of episodes entitled, Genius. His book, A.Brief History of Time, was his most important sales effort to the public; this would be his last. In the end, we will all just have to forgive him for being such a good salesperson.

He said, “The answer, as most people can tell you, is the big bang. Everything in existence, expanding exponentially in every direction, from an infinitely small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense point, creating a cosmos filled with energy and matter. But what does that really mean and where did it all begin?” Ref. [1] May 2016 PBS-TV series, Genius

“Everything in existence…” and “infinitely-hot” became his inflation and expansion of the universe. I should note that George Ellis, Hawking’s co-author in 1973 of their first book, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, said in an email that when Hawking referred to infinitely-hot he was not thinking of Planck Temperature. -Bruce Camber

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