"If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form."

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About Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist known for work on black holes and cosmology. He authored A Brief History of Time and became one of the most recognized scientists of the modern era.

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