HONG KONG (AFP) - Acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking has said that
humanity is finally getting close to understanding the origin of the
universe. 
Speaking at a lecture in Hong Kong, Hawking said that despite some
theoretical advances in the past years, there are still mysteries as to
how the universe began.
"Despite having had some great successes, not everything is solved. We
do not yet have good theoretical understanding of the observation of the
expansion of the universe," he told an audience of 2,500 at the Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology.
"Without such understanding, we cannot be sure of the future of the
universe.
"New observational results and theoretical advances are coming in
rapidly; cosmology is a very exciting subject. We are getting close to
answering these old questions: why are we here, where did we come from?"
The 64-year-old also said his unfulfilled ambitions, among many, were to
find out what happens inside black holes, how the universe began and how
the human race can survive in the next 100 years.
"Above all, he joked, he wants to understand women."


Maybe he's looking too far out ?

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