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Originally Posted by wodin
As I understand the media/reviewer's interpretation of Hawking's book, he failed to answer the fundamental question, “Who wrote the laws?”
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He does answer this question, in the manner discussed earlier in this thread, by explaining that M-Theory in particular allows for spontaneous generation of multiple universes each with its own set of physical laws. This means that there is no need to look for the "Who" in the question.
It does not remove the possibility of the existence of a "Who", of course, who exists outside of the realm of what can be known, but one is not an absolute requirement for all that is around us to exist.
M-Theory, of course, has yet to be fully confirmed by observation, but the building blocks on which it is based, those of quantum physics, have been subjected to some of the most rigorous testing ever conducted and have so far passed every test.
Graham