Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Cambridge University and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time, has paid a week long visit to CERN in Geneva – the world’s largest centre for particle physics.

Prof. Hawking was visiting the Theory Unit of the Physics Department at CERN. The Theory Unit welcomes about 400 visiting physicists per year, who come together to debate and discuss their ideas. As a key figure in the field of theoretical cosmology, Prof. Hawking’s visit reinforces the exciting anticipation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), due to start up in 2007, and the importance of CERN as a central meeting place for the best minds in physics.

There is a link to the two lectures (video download/ realplayer stream) at the bottom of the page
"The semiclassical birth of the Universe"
"EXCEPTIONAL CERN COLLOQUIUM: The Origin of the Universe"

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