Love it
“Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics
Oppenheimer Lecture, Stephen Hawking said yesterday that he now believes
the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing. He said
more work is needed to prove this but we have time because ‘Eternity
is a very long time, especially towards the end.’ There is also a
Webcast available (Realplayer or Real Alternative required).”

‘Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.’
*chuckle* Is that an Onion story?
No, real thing. was slashdotted.
Ah! There it is. It had been more than 30seconds since the last time I checked /.
i had to read an excerpt from a Stephen Hawking book for one of my evil anthro classes. it was hilarious. i never knew black holes could be so funny
That rules.