of Time attest to this interest. The book was on the London Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks, has been translated into forty languages, and has sold one copy for every 750 people in the world.1 Concerning its popularity, Hawking writes, The success of A Brief History indicates that there is widespread interest in the big questions like: Where did I come from? And why is the universe the way it is?2 And doesn’t this “widespread interest in the big questions” make sense? After all, if
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