Thomas Hertog
Belgian theoretical physicist and cosmologist, known for work on quantum cosmology, early-universe models and collaborations with Stephen Hawking on the no-boundary proposal and related topics.
Books
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1. On The Origin Of Time
A readable exploration of how time may emerge from a quantum description of the universe rather than existing as a fundamental background, arguing that the classical “beginning” is replaced by a finite quantum state that gives rise to spacetime and the arrow of time; it develops ideas from quantum cosmology (including the no-boundary approach) to show how particular initial quantum conditions, together with inflationary dynamics, can produce the observable large-scale structure and yield testable predictions, thereby reframing the origin of time as a scientific, observationally relevant problem.
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