Wave function of the Universe. Offprint from: Physical Review D, Vol. 28, No. 12, 15 December 1983

by James Burkett Hartle, Stephen William Hawking

$8,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Brookhaven, NY: The American Physical Society , 1983. First edition, very rare offprint, and Hawking’s own file copy, of this famous paper describing the 'no-boundary proposal’ for the origin of the universe. “Stephen sought to understand the whole universe in scientific terms. As he said famously, ‘My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe’ … From 1982 onwards, Stephen

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