Energy = Mass * Constant (the speed of light) squared I decided
to listen to Steven Hawking for 3 hours last night. It was a 3
part series, narrated by him (not always in his voice) based on
his 2010 book, The Grand Design. From what I can tell the book
is a treatise as to his position that a god is not necessarry in
order to have a created universe. I picked it up in the second
and third hour then watched the first hour when it repeated. Had
I seen the first hour first, I probably would not have bothered
with the other two. Hawking states that 3 things are necessary
for a universe to be created: mass, energy, and space. In
further explaination, using Einsteins formula from his Special
Theory of Relativity, he rationalizes that Energy and Mass are
essentally the same, therefore only two things are necessary for
the Big Bang to happen, energy and space. He further explains
that since energy is not lost, but converted to negative energy,
that the universe is made up of equal amounts of positive and
negative ene