Stephen Hawking reveals what existed before the Big Bang

In an interview with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, iconic physicist Stephen Hawking reveals what he believes existed prior to the Big Bang. "Nothing was around," said Hawking, who fortunately elaborated on this point. "The Euclidean space-time is a closed surface without end, like the surface of the Earth," said Hawking, referring to the four-dimensional conceptual model that incorporates the three dimensions of space with time. "One can regard imaginary and real time as beginning at the South...

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