why do we exist? why this particular set of laws and not some other? this is the ultimate question of life. the universe. and everything. larry: the book the grand design stephen hawking was with us earlier. we re be leonard mlodino, the co-author of that book. deepak chopra, spiritual teacher and bestselling author. and father robert j. spitzer, the famed jesuit priest. what if i were to just say, father, what s it so what? why do i have to wonder about these things? it is or it isn t. i m here. i will be here. i will do my best. i will die. something might happen to me. something might not happen to me. why is all this important? because human beings by nature just want to make the most out of their lives. they want the most meaning that they can possibly have. they want to know who they really are at their deepest level.
those rivers? there are a lot of awesome things in the world that we wonder about that are almost beyond human power to understand in their beauty or their significance. and that s the realm i think of philosophy and religion and a lot of people ponder that. novelists. in science what we look at is how the universe is. what can we say about the way the universe is? what we measure and what is the order that we observe? and so we there are two separate domains. larry: the book is the grand design. when we come back, we ll have another question from the dumby. don t go away. everythinge do belin it s a yea 50 milpromise. wi complenta schemaintee and /7 roaide assiance. beusen y ce the st bif, faaronar
their creation does not require the intervention of some supernatural being or god. rather, these multiple universes arise naturally from physical law. they are a prediction of science. larry: we re back with stephen hawking, he s in cambridge, england. he s the co-author, and we re going to meet the co-author in a little while of the grand design. you have written, stephen, that time travel was once considered scientific hairsy. how likely is it that time travel will one day become a reality? time travel used to be thought of as science fiction, but einstein s theory of general relativity allows the possibility that we could warp spice time so much that you could fly off in a rocket and return before you set out.
[ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. larry: leonard mlodinow, physicist and key author of grand design. father spitzer remains with us. we re joined by deepak chopra, spiritual teach e and bestselling author. book muhammed. i think it will be a bestseller. deepak, give us your overview of what we ve heard from mlodinow and stephen hawking.
and my lord now is that i believe this nothingness, this nothingness is not an empty void. it s the room of creation. that nation goes to exactly the same place to create a galaxy of stars, a rain forest, or a thought. this is the formless mind of the infinite being. it s the transcendent mind. leonard will say the same thing, but he won t use the word transcendence. he ll say it s a field of possibilities or a super position of possibilities. in fact, he says in the book that at least 500 universes could possibly exist in super position of possibility at this level. which to me suggests an omniscient being. the only position i have is god