I doubt anything except what is alive has consciousness... because if the universe is somehow alive (so scary when I think about it, whole mass of everything, is alive and breathing... my God) it'd be not very nice to think about it..... at least for me.

Universe definitely isn't alive, an infinite EVERYTHING shouldn't be alive. Unless of course there is another universe...

Although I am no physicist (I cannot handle high school physics) I doubt universe is alive, or at least should be alive. Again this is a friendly suggestion and by no means criticism by Stephen Hawking's successor. God may exist, he may not exist, that's not for science to know at least yet.