Stephen Hawking
by Leonard Mlodinow · 8 Sep 2020 · 209pp · 68,587 words
Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra) The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives A Briefer History of Time (with Stephen Hawking) Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life Euclid’s Window: The Story of
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Penguin Random House LLC. Photograph on this page courtesy of Alexei Mlodinow Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Name: Mlodinow, Leonard, [date] author. Title: Stephen Hawking : a memoir of friendship and physics / Leonard Mlodinow. Description: First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2020. Identifiers: LCCN 2019049362 (print). LCCN 2019049363 (ebook). ISBN 9781524748685
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6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Epilogue A Note on Sources Acknowledgments A Note About the Author In memory of Stephen Hawking 1942–2018 Introduction I said my last goodbye to Stephen at Great St. Mary’s church, a five-hundred-year-old structure in the midst
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complex had won some design awards, but the design element I’d have liked most would have been arrows on signs saying “This way to Stephen Hawking.” Stephen’s pavilion was adjacent to an older building called the Isaac Newton Institute. Newton’s name came up a lot when you knew Stephen
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and Theoretical Physics, or DAMTP, as people affectionately referred to it, pronouncing the acronym as if the P were silent. DAMTP was world famous as Stephen Hawking’s university department. There were only three stories in Stephen’s building, and the stairwell wound around an elevator shaft. I went up some stairs
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head up, trying to balance it. His glasses slid toward his cheek. Beep beep beep beep. An alarm started up. I’d been nabbed damaging Stephen Hawking. Just then Sandi returned, and behind her, Judith, responding to the alarm. Sandi set Stephen’s head right and adjusted his glasses. With the glasses
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more widespread belief that the issue is not one of great importance. * * * In the repository at Cambridge, stamped with the date 1 FEB 1966, is Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D. dissertation: Properties of Expanding Universes. He was twenty-four then. The dissertation opens, “Some implications and consequences of the expanding universe are
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more complicated for black holes with spin, but that is outside the scope of this discussion. 7 The 1970s were not a good decade for Stephen Hawking’s body. He’d matured as a physicist but his disability was also advancing. In the early 1970s he lost most control of his hands
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a senior fellow spoke of him as if giving him even that spot in a shared office was doing him a favor. “As long as Stephen Hawking pulls his weight, he can stay at the university,” the man said, “but as soon as he ceases to do that, he will have to
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in the middle. “I’m disappointed by your inactivity,” I said. Having said it, I felt disappointed in me. Who was I to talk to Stephen Hawking that way? He made a face. I tried to read his expression. What was he thinking? It wasn’t an angry face. It looked like
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it. Back then the author’s name was not a draw. Despite that New York Times profile, few outside the physics world had heard of Stephen Hawking. The market for popular science books hadn’t yet taken off. Still, every few years there had been a success. In 1977 there had been
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two 360s, then raced off for the hotel entrance. The grad student saw Guzzardi observing all this. “Peter Guzzardi?” he asked. Guzzardi nodded. “That is Stephen Hawking,” he said. Guzzardi and the student took off after Stephen. They had to run to keep up, though it wasn’t the kind of place
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ear, but she was practically yelling. “It might have been nice to let me know,” she continued. “You never do, do you! Because you’re Stephen Hawking, and you don’t need to! Well, there’s not enough food!” With that I started to withdraw, but I could tell from Stephen’s
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, that’s not the way the book and its author were described in the media. In the media, Stephen Hawking, the man who couldn’t move, was called Master of the Universe. Of Stephen Hawking the atheist, it was declared that Courageous Physicist Knows the Mind of God. The inflated headlines were merely the
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Bantam would agree and hadn’t given the matter any further thought. He seemed to have appreciated, which I didn’t at the time, that Stephen Hawking was the man who’d made Bantam Bantam. But Al had been right, too. The Grand Design sold well enough that in the long run
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. I sat back and joined Stephen in focusing on Diana’s music. I wish now that I’d asked her what it was. *1 See Stephen Hawking, “Cosmology from the Top Down,” The Davis Meeting on Cosmic Inflation, March 22–25, 2003. *2 Technically, in quantum field theory, the sum is over
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before the answer came. When it did, what he said was “My children.” * * * I was staring at a computer screen when the news flash came: Stephen Hawking is dead. He died at his home on Wordsworth Grove on March 14, 2018. It had been more than four years since I had seen
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Seiler, Kip Thorne, Neil Turok, and Radka Visnakova. I also drew background material from two biographies: Kitty Ferguson, Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work (London: Transworld, 2011), and Michael White and John Gribbin, Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science (New York: Pegasus, 2016). For some of the details of Stephen’s life in the
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, 2000), and Kip Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps (New York: Norton, 1994). Finally, I also gleaned a few details from David H. Abramson, “Saving Stephen Hawking,” Harvard Magazine (May 9, 2018); Judy Bachrach, “A Beautiful Mind, an Ugly Possibility,” Vanity Fair (June 2004); and Bernard Carr
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, “Stephen Hawking: Recollections of a Singular Friend,” Paradigm Explorer (2018/1), 9–13. Generally, I used these references only as background or for looking up facts or
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, Beth Rashbaum, Fred Rose, Julie Sayres, Peggy Boulos Smith, Martin J. Smith, Andrew Weber, and Mariana Zahar. Most of all, I owe a debt to Stephen Hawking for choosing to work with me, and for the warmth and friendship we shared over the years we knew each other. His passing has left
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), The Drunkard’s Walk (a New York Times Notable Book), War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), and A Briefer History of Time (with Stephen Hawking), as well as Elastic, The Upright Thinkers, Feynman’s Rainbow, and Euclid’s Window. He has also written for the television series
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking · 16 Aug 2011 · 186pp · 64,267 words
ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING A Briefer History of Time Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays The Illustrated A Brief History of Time The Universe in a Nutshell
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Bantam illustrated hardcover edition published November 1996 Bantam hardcover edition/September 1998 Bantam trade paperback edition/September 1998 All rights reserved. Copyright © 1988, 1996 by Stephen Hawking Illustrations copyright © 1988 by Ron Miller BOOK DESIGN BY GLEN M. EDELSTEIN No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
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from the publisher. For information address: Bantam Books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.) A brief history of time / Stephen Hawking. p. cm. Includes index. eISBN: 978-0-553-89692-3 1. Cosmology. I. Title. QB981.H377 1998 523.1—dc21 98-21874 Bantam Books are
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few years we should know whether we can believe that we live in a universe that is completely self-contained and without beginning or end. Stephen Hawking CHAPTER 1 OUR PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He
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, my nurses, colleagues, friends, and family have enabled me to live a very full life and to pursue my research despite my disability. Stephen Hawking ABOUT THE AUTHOR STEPHEN HAWKING was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors
The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow · 14 Jun 2010 · 124pp · 40,697 words
ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING A Brief History of Time A Briefer History of Time Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
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support, but practical and technical support without which we could not have written this book. Moreover, they always knew where to find the best pubs. STEPHEN HAWKING was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
by Stephen Hawking · 28 Mar 2007
GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS THE MATHEMATICAL BREAKTHROUGHS THAT CHANGED HISTORY EDITED, WITH COMMENTARY, BY STEPHEN HAWKING RUNNING PRESS PHILADELPHIA • LONDON © 2007 by Stephen Hawking All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form
Pandora's Brain
by Calum Chace · 4 Feb 2014 · 345pp · 104,404 words
only scientists, industrialists and generals — should ask ourselves what can we do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits and avoiding the risks.’ Stephen Hawking, April 2014 SELECTED REVIEWS FOR PANDORA’S BRAIN ‘I love the concepts in this book!’ Peter James, author of the best-selling Roy Grace series
From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time
by Sean M. Carroll · 15 Jan 2010 · 634pp · 185,116 words
, 177, 213, 270, 379, and 382 by Sean Carroll. Photograph on page 204 courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. Photograph on page 259 courtesy of Professor Stephen Hawking. Photograph on page 267 courtesy of Professor Jacob Bekenstein. Photograph on page 295 by Jerry Bauer, from Wikimedia Commons. Photograph on page 315 courtesy of
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stars will have been used up. At that point, the black hole itself begins to evaporate into elementary particles. That’s the remarkable discovery of Stephen Hawking from 1976, which we’ll discuss in detail in Chapter Twelve: “black holes ain’t so black.” Due once again to quantum fluctuations, a black
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could form in the real world, but the standard scenario is the collapse of a sufficiently massive star. In the late 1960s, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking proved a remarkable feature of general relativity: If the gravitational field becomes sufficiently strong, a singularity must be formed.74 You might think that’s
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destroy our would-be time machine. Nature, it seems, tries very hard to stop us from building a time machine. The accumulated circumstantial evidence prompted Stephen Hawking to propose what he calls the “Chronology Protection Conjecture”: The laws of physics (whatever they may be) prohibit the creation of closed timelike curves.101
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HOLES: THE ENDS OF TIME Time, old gal of mine, will soon dim out. —Anne Sexton, “For Mr. Death Who Stands with His Door Open” Stephen Hawking is one of the most willful people on Earth. In 1963, while working toward his doctorate at Cambridge University at the age of twenty-one
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visit on his annual sojourn. The institute administrator gave me a simple task: “Pick up Stephen at the airport.” As you might guess, picking up Stephen Hawking at the airport is different than picking up anyone else. For one thing, you’re not really “picking him up”; he rents a van that
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Hawking explained that we had passed the restaurant and would have to turn around. Figure 58: Stephen Hawking, who gave us the most important clue we have about the relationship between quantum mechanics, gravity, and entropy. Stephen Hawking has been able to accomplish remarkable things while working under extraordinary handicaps, and the reason is
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’ve used up all the extractable energy, and the hole just sits there. Those words should sound vaguely familiar from our previous discussions of thermodynamics. Stephen Hawking followed up on Penrose’s work to show that, while it’s possible to decrease the mass/energy of a spinning black hole, there is
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. HAWKING RADIATION Along with Wheeler’s group at Princeton, the best work in general relativity in the early 1970s was being done in Great Britain. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, in particular, were inventing and applying new mathematical techniques to the study of curved spacetime. Out of these investigations came the celebrated
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has been whittled down to a very small size, the end comes quickly in a dramatic explosion. Unfortunately, the numbers make it very hard for Stephen Hawking to win the Nobel Prize for predicting black hole radiation. For the kinds of black holes we know about, the radiation is far too feeble
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community, with different people coming down on different sides of the debate. Very roughly speaking, physicists who come from a background in general relativity (including Stephen Hawking) have tended to believe that information really is lost, and that black hole evaporation represents a breakdown of the conventional rules of quantum mechanics; meanwhile
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. In 1997, Hawking and fellow general-relativist Kip Thorne made a bet with John Preskill, a particle theorist from Caltech. It read as follows: Whereas Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne firmly believe that information swallowed by a black hole is forever hidden from the outside universe, and can never be revealed even
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Dutch Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft and American string theorist Leonard Susskind, and later formalized by German-American physicist Raphael Bousso (formerly a student of Stephen Hawking).227 Superficially, the holographic principle might sound a bit dry. Okay, the number of possible states in a region is proportional to the size of
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describe spacetimes with different numbers of dimensions! Neither theory is “the right one”; they are completely equivalent to each other. Maldacena’s discovery helped persuade Stephen Hawking to concede his bet with Preskill and Thorne (although Hawking, as is his wont, worked things out his own way before becoming convinced). Remember that
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principle of information conservation. Clearly, something has to give. The situation is reminiscent of the puzzle of information loss in black holes. There, we (or Stephen Hawking, more accurately) used quantum field theory in curved spacetime to derive a result—the evaporation of black holes into Hawking radiation—that seemed to destroy
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T = (ħ/2πk)H, where ħ is Planck’s constant and k is Boltzmann’s constant. This was first worked out by Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking (1977). 252 You might think this prediction is a bit too bold, relying on uncertain extrapolations into regimes of physics that we don’t really
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attention to. 275 A related strategy is to posit a particular form for the wave function of the universe, as advocated by James Hartle and Stephen Hawking (1983). They rely on a technique known as “Euclidean quantum gravity”; attempting to do justice to the pros and cons of this approach would take
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more realistic version of the Weyl curvature hypothesis would have to be phrased in quantum-gravity language. 278 Gold (1962). 279 For a brief while, Stephen Hawking believed that his approach to quantum cosmology predicted that the arrow of time would actually reverse if the universe re-collapsed (Hawking, 1985). Don Page
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. The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design. New York: Little, Brown, 2006. Susskind, L. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. New York: Little, Brown, 2008. Susskind, L., and Lindesay, J. An Introduction to Black Holes, Information, and
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
by Paul Sen · 16 Mar 2021 · 444pp · 111,837 words
(Lord Kelvin), James Joule, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Clausius, James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether, Claude Shannon, Alan Turing, Jacob Bekenstein, and Stephen Hawking are among the smartest humans who ever lived. To tell their story is a way for all of us to comprehend and appreciate one of
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of thermodynamics. The story of how this was discovered begins with one of the few people in history who exceeds the hype that surrounds him, Stephen Hawking. * * * In the summer of 1962, a healthy young student sat before a board of examiners at Oxford University. Twenty years old
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, Stephen Hawking was about to receive his undergraduate degree. As his physics tutor at the time said of the examiners, “They were intelligent enough to realize they
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if thermodynamics could somehow survive the battle with general relativity. To do so he had to assume, flying in the face of the beliefs of Stephen Hawking and others, that a black hole could have entropy. Colleagues have commented how Bekenstein’s quiet and gentle demeanor stood in stark contrast to his
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general theory of relativity, increasing the mass of a black hole always increased the area of its event horizon. This was also in line with Stephen Hawking’s recent paper showing that event horizons can never become smaller. To summarize: Entropy increases the energy content of the black hole, increasing both its
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who heard about it said it was patent nonsense. Some told me that I was wasting my time.” Reading Bekenstein’s paper did not make Stephen Hawking happy, either. Having spent several years studying general relativity, Hawking felt strongly that it banned the possibility of black holes giving off heat. Together with
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fevered imaginings, could he have foreseen that the ideas he seeded would one day help us to understand the very edge of our cosmos. As Stephen Hawking wrote, “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That
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Goes Back to Alan Turing,” October 2017. Chapter Nineteen: Event Horizon Bekenstein and Hawking were the first: From The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safer for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind. Your idea is so crazy: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in
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. a black hole cannot radiate heat and therefore cannot have entropy: See A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking. Jacob Bekenstein and his supervisor, John Wheeler: For details of this meeting and more biographical information on both, see Of Gravity, Black Holes and Information
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Alan Turing: The Enigma Man by Nigel Cawthorne Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safer for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne A
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Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking The Bumpy Road: Max Planck from Radiation Theory to the Quantum, 1896–1906 by Massimiliano Badino Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Einstein
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World by Ian Stewart Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Ian Stewart Sketch of Thermodynamics by Peter Guthrie Tate Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work by Kitty Ferguson Stephen Hawking’s Universe: An Introduction to the Most Remarkable Scientist of Our Time by John Boslough A Student’s Guide to Einstein
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
by Michio Kaku · 5 Apr 2021 · 157pp · 47,161 words
write an equation whose mathematical elegance would encompass the whole of physics. Some of the most eminent physicists in the world embarked upon this quest. Stephen Hawking even gave a talk with the auspicious title “Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics?” If such a theory is successful, it would be
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the limits of our imagination. As it turns out, our guide through this uncharted territory was totally paralyzed. As a graduate student at Cambridge University, Stephen Hawking was an ordinary youth, without much direction or purpose. He went through the motions of being a physicist, but his heart was not there. It
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was done, the Flatlanders were amazed and astonished at the dazzling, shimmering jewel that suddenly emerged before them, with its perfect, glorious symmetry. Or, as Stephen Hawking wrote, If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then
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://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/10/you-say-theoretical-physicists-are.html. Chapter 7: Finding Meaning in the Universe “If we do discover a complete theory”: Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), 175. SELECTED READING Bartusiak, Marcia. Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony. Yale University Press, 2017. Becker, Katrin
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, Feynman, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and Einstein. Independently published, 2020. Misner, Charles W., Kip Thorne, and John A. Wheeler. Gravitation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2017. Mlodinow, Leonard. Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics. New York: Pantheon Books, 2020. Polchinski, Joseph. String Theory, vols. 1 and 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Smolin
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
by Simon Singh · 29 Oct 2013 · 262pp · 65,959 words
elite. Indeed, as the episode reaches its finale, the revolting masses focus their anger on Lisa, who is only saved when none other than Professor Stephen Hawking arrives in the nick of time to rescue her. Although we associate Hawking with cosmology, he spent thirty years as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
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also encouraged Homer’s intellectual side to flourish in “They Saved Lisa’s Brain,” an episode that has already been discussed in Chapter 7. After Stephen Hawking saves Lisa from a baying mob, the story ends with Professor Hawking chatting to Lisa’s father in Moe’s Tavern, where he is impressed
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picked Cygnus X-1 because it is considered a glamorous black hole, thanks to being the subject of a famous wager. The mathematician and cosmologist Stephen Hawking had initially doubted that the object in question was indeed a black hole, so he placed a bet with his colleague Kip Thorne. When careful
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil · 14 Jul 2005 · 761pp · 231,902 words
represent only the early-adoption phase. As the technologies become established, there will be no barriers to using them for vast expansion of human potential. Stephen Hawking recently commented in the German magazine Focus that computer intelligence will surpass that of humans within a few decades. He advocated that we "urgently need
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been a long-standing debate about whether or not we can transmit information into a black hole, have it usefully transformed, and then retrieve it. Stephen Hawking's conception of transmissions from a black hole involves particle-antiparticle pairs that are created near the event horizon (the point of no return near
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is pulled into the black hole while the other manages to escape. These escaping particles form a glow called Hawking radiation, named after its discoverer, Stephen Hawking. The current thinking is that this radiation does reflect (in a coded fashion, and as a result of a form of quantum entanglement with the
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," New Scientist, June 30, 2004, http://www.newscientist.comlnews/news.jsp?id=ns99996092. See also http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050512120842.htm. 16. Stephen Hawking declared at a scientific conference in Dublin on July 21, 2004, that he had been wrong in a controversial assertion he made thirty years ago
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Kimberly Weaver, "The Galactic Odd Couple," http://www.scientificamerican.com. June 10, 2003; Jean-Pierre Lasota, "Unmasking Black Holes," Scientific American (May 1999): 41–47; Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (New York: Bantam, 1988). 18. Joel Smoller and Blake Temple, "Shock-Wave Cosmology
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news release, see "An Early Step Toward Helping the Paralyzed Walk," October 24, 2001, http://www.utah.edu/news/releases/01/oct/spinal.html. 25. Stephen Hawking's remarks, which were mistranslated by Focus, were quoted in Nick Paton Walsh, "Alter Our DNA or Robots Will Take Over, Warns Hawking," Observer, September
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