414 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 19 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: What was before the big bang? Ask_SN
The big bang was actually first proposed by a priest and physicist, Georges Lemaître.
Stephen Hawking's work was mostly around black holes, and their radiation, now called Hawking's radiation.
His book tells the story of physics for the general public, but he didn't work directly in all that is there.