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In A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking leaves a tantalizing gap in his explanation of the arrow of time in terms of his no-boundary proposal for cosmology.
Onerous and unprecedented regulation of research, and financial difficulties, have given many researchers the impression that fruitful applications will now come only slowly, but others believe they flow too thick and fast.
