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In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

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Stephen Hawking
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 8
Died: 2018
Died: March 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Stephen William Hawking
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