Does God Play Dice?

✍ Scribed by Hawking, Stephen

• Book ID: 109045233
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 8 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

This lecture is about whether we can predict the future, or whether it is arbitrary and random. In ancient times, the world must have seemed pretty arbitrary. Disasters such as floods or diseases must have seemed to happen without warning or apparent reason. Primitive people attributed such natural phenomena, to a pantheon of gods and goddesses, who behaved in a capricious and whimsical way. There was no way to predict what they would do, and the only hope was to win favor by gifts or actions.