Stephen Hawking dies at 76 in his home in Cambridge

One of the brightest minds in physics today, Stephen Hawking, died today - early on Wednesday in Cambridge - at age 76, the Guardian reported.

In a statement issued by his family, he announced that he died at his home in Cambridge.

Still, until a few days ago, a video was broadcast in which Hawking answered a question that was often asked by astronomers and other scientists: What was before the Universe?

Until now, the most accepted theory about the emergence of the Universe is that of the Big Bang 13,800 million years ago.

Stephen Hawking, who opted for the theory "Proposal without limits", which he spoke on the television program Star Talk on National Geographic Channel.

The Universe before the Big Bang

For Hawking there was nothing before the Universe. He said that "the boundary condition of the Universe is ... that it has no border". It was also that it was absurd to talk about time, because with the birth of the Universe, time also arose.

To better understand the "proposal without limits", the scientist explains that it is as if a "rewind" button was pressed that leads back to the history of the Universe. He said that as the Universe is constantly expanding, the logic is that by going back, it contracts to the size of an atom.

Right at that little point and point, known as singularity, it would be totally like the matter of the Universe - mass, energy of the flowers of physics and time. Although time did not exist, yes "the arrow of time", the direction in which time points, what is explained as what it does, follow, contract, become more and more, small, know, the limit of its beginning .

In conclusion, Stephen Hawking postulates that before the Big Bang time was contracted between the "quantum foam" of singularity, which causes it to distort into another dimension, approaching nothing, but without reaching nothing.

Above you can see the part of the interview that took him to the scientist.