John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe
Avon Books, ISBN 0-380-70763-2 1985, p.78

“I would like to know exactly what
happened between 10^-33 sec. and 10^-43 sec..
It is there that the ultimate answer
to all questions about the universe
— life itself included — lies,” said Hawking.

“The classical notion of time would break down somewhere before then — somewhere between 10^-33 and 10^-43 second. I recently wrote a paper that was mainly concerned with the universe at 10^-33 second, but my real concern is what lies beyond that. I don’t think there is really a very definite model at this point. Nothing seems to provide the answer so far,” Stephen Hawking rightly concluded.

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