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Sep 17, 2013 · Sept. 17, 2013, 7:48 AM PDT. LONDON (Reuters) — British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has backed the right for people who are terminally ill to choose to end their lives and to receive help to...
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Sep 17, 2013 · LONDON (Reuters) - British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has backed the right for people who are terminally ill to choose to end their lives and to receive help to do so as long as safeguards...
Sep 17, 2013 · British physicist Stephen Hawking sits at his desk in the Applied Mathematics Department of Cambridge University August 30, 2012. (REUTERS/Guillermo Granja/Vice Presidency of...
Dec 11, 2012 · LONDON (Reuters) - Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist who urged people to "be curious" in the Paralympics opening ceremony, has landed the richest prize in science for his work on how...
- From The Big Bang…
- To Black Holes
- From Black Holes to The Whole Universe
- The Biggest Challenge?
The discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in 1964 provided the first nail in the coffin of the steady state theory. The theory couldn't explain the existence of this faint glow that permeated the Universe, but Big Bang theory could: the CMB might be nothing less than left over radiation from the Big Bang. Having begun his stu...
The Big Bang wasn't the only inevitable singularity, however. Hawking's work with Penrose showed that singularities would also occur inside black holes, regions of space within which the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape (or so it was thought). Black holes can arise, for example, when a massive star collapses ...
Hawking's work has consequences for all of cosmology and even the whole of physics. Just as the singularity theorems applied to the "local" phenomenon of black holes and the "global" phenomenon of the Big Bang, his black hole radiation result may also illuminate the history of the Universe in its entirety. Remarkably, Hawking and Gibbons realised t...
In terms of physics as a whole, Hawking's work is significant because it links two areas that up to now have refused to coexist in harmony. By their very definition black holes are linked to the force of gravity and therefore described by general relativity, the theory that applies to the Universe at large scales. However, the radiation that emanat...
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Mar 14, 2018 · Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has died at age 76 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Famous for his mind-bending theories of black holes and his popular book, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes , Hawking was a frequent visitor to Caltech.
Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.