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[Brookhaven, NY: The American Physical Society], 1983. First edition. HAWKING'S NO-BOUNDARY PROPOSAL: HOW THE UNIVERSE COULD HAVE ARISEN FROM NOTHING. 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 concentrated his efforts on the deeper puzzle of the boundary conditions required to bring about inflation and the probability of them coming about ... The singularity theorems proved by Stephen, Penrose and others showed conclusively that the classical Einstein equation implied that the universe began in a hot Big Bang. But the singularity theorems also showed that the beginning could not be described by a classical space-time geometry obeying the Einstein equation with three space directions and one time… Read More