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We are now ruled by the laws of mathematics that are common to all of us experience. This is a measure of our success, and we must now rapidly building a huge machine that cost billions of dollars in the same high-energy particles, we do not know what's going to happen as a result of impact. These are very high energy particles in a normal situation does not occur on Earth, so a large amount of unnecessary expenditures and show their academic learning. However, they have occurred in the early universe, we must understand what happens to these efforts that says if we understand what we and the universe began.           Stephen Hawking’s Universe     I do not agree with the view that the universe is a mystery, something that one can have intuition about but never fully analyze or comprehend. I feel that this view does not do justice to the scientific revolution that was started almost four hundred years ago by Galileo and carried on by Newton. They showed that at least some areas of the universe do not behave in an arbitrary manner but are governed by precise mathematical laws. Over the years since then, we have extended the work of Galileo and Newton to almost every area of the universe. We now have mathematical laws that govern everything we normally experience. It is a measure of our success that we now have to spend billions of dollars to build giant machines to accelerate particles to such high energy that we don't yet know what will happen when they collide. These very high particle energies don't occur in normal situations on earth, so it might seem academic and unnecessary to spend large sums on studying them. But they would have occurred in the early universe, so we must find out what happens at these energies if we are to understand how we and the universe began.   There is still a great deal that we don't know or understand about the universe. But the remarkable progress we have made, particularly in the last hundred years, should encourage us to believe that a complete understanding may not be beyond our powers. We may not be forever doomed to grope in the dark. We may break through to a complete theory of the universe. In that case, we would indeed be Masters of the Universe.   ... [T]he universe is governed by an order that we can perceive partially now and that we may understand fully in the not-too-distant future. It may be that this hope is just a mirage; there may be no ultimate theory, and even if there is, we may not find it. But it is surely better to strive for a complete understanding than to despair of the human mind.           — Stephen W. Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)               Indexes/11