The Current23:13Cosmologist Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking and the origins of the universe
After finishing his PhD, Thomas Hertog — a close collaborator of Stephen Hawking’s — set out on a vacation travelling the Silk Roads.
Hertog was stuck on a bridge in northern Afghanistan when he received an email from Hawking, asking him to ditch his vacation and come back to work with him.
“This was the moment that he realized that A Brief History of Time was written from the wrong perspective,” Hertog said.
Hertog did as he was asked. The border guard there in Afghanistan turned out to be
