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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #20 on: 03/14/2018 07:55 pm »
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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #21 on: 03/14/2018 09:11 pm »
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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #22 on: 03/15/2018 09:28 am »
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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #23 on: 03/15/2018 02:34 pm »
Couldn’t believe the news When I heard it.  RIP Professor Hawking. You will really be missed

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #24 on: 03/15/2018 04:02 pm »
RIP Stephen Hawking.  :'(

It's amazing how he changed the way modern-day physicists, astronomers, and cosmologists study their respective fields.

So sad to see him go.

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #25 on: 03/15/2018 06:27 pm »
My highest respekt for his life and his scientific work. He has influencend my thinking.

R.I.P. Stephen!

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« Reply #26 on: 03/15/2018 08:29 pm »
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Stephen Hawking's love affair with classical music - in his own words
"Even if we found a complete theory of the universe, it wouldn't remove the need for music."

Tom Service interviewed Prof Hawking for Music Matters in 2006, when the renowned physicist, cosmologist and music lover programmed a concert for the Cambridge Music Festival.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06136y3

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #27 on: 03/16/2018 07:03 am »
He was a man of great faith.

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« Reply #28 on: 03/16/2018 12:38 pm »
Rest in Peace. Stephen Hawkings will be remembered forever.

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #30 on: 03/18/2018 03:14 am »
The moment I heard about it, I missed him already.  I hope it was peaceful.


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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #31 on: 03/18/2018 03:35 am »
In 1983 I was a student at DAMTP, the department where Stephen worked and taught.
As a tribute his work, and as something fun for the more mathematically inclined members of NSF, I've
posted a scan of my lecture notes from his 1983 quantum cosmology course at
http://planet4589.org/jcm/misc/swh/swh.pdf

I'm feeling very nostalgic about those days in Cambridge. Stephen and the other brilliant minds around him
were inspiring to be around.


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Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #32 on: 03/18/2018 07:58 pm »
Looks like Mr Hawking was determined to go out with a bang as he currently has a paper in peer review setting out the mathematics needed for detecting multiple big bangs from parallel universes within the CMB.

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A final theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes was completed by Stephen Hawking shortly before he died, it has emerged.

Colleagues have revealed the renowned theoretical physicist’s final academic work was to set out the groundbreaking mathematics needed for a spacecraft to find traces of multiple big bangs.

Currently being reviewed by a leading scientific journal, the paper, named A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation, may turn out to be Hawking’s most important scientific legacy.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/03/18/stephen-hawking-leaves-behind-breathtaking-final-multiverse/

Here’s the paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07702
« Last Edit: 03/19/2018 07:55 pm by Star One »

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #33 on: 03/19/2018 10:21 am »
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

16 March 2018

ESA is saddened by the news of the passing of Professor Stephen Hawking, FRS, cosmologist and one of the pioneers of theoretical studies of black holes, on 14 March at the age of 76.

Diagnosed with a progressive motor neurone disease at a young age, Stephen Hawking nevertheless went on to make key contributions to our understanding of the properties of black holes. Most notably, he took the ground-breaking step of combining quantum mechanics and general relativity to predict a form of radiation from their event horizons that should cause them to evaporate slowly, contrary to all prior predictions.

Following the publication of his best-selling book A Brief History of Time in 1988, he became a public figure, communicating science to a worldwide audience. Instantly recognisable owing to his wheelchair and computer-generated voice, he reached iconic status, appearing as himself in shows including The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory, as well as being portrayed in the biographical films Hawking and The Theory of Everything.

His deteriorating physical condition did not constrain his mind or his puckish sense of humour, and he showed continued dedication to humanist and socialist causes throughout society. He was worried about the future of humankind and used his public platform to address these concerns.

It is his insightful and innovative scientific legacy that will remain, and generations of scientists to come will be working on the predictions he made regarding some of the most exotic phenomena our Universe has to offer. They will be helped in part by new missions being developed by ESA, including the Athena X-ray observatory and the LISA gravitational wave observatory, for both of which black holes will be fundamental targets.

Prof. Hawking always wanted to go into space himself and, while that is unfortunately no longer possible, we hope that, in some small way, we can play a role in ensuring that his scientific vision does.

https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Stephen_Hawking_1942-2018

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #34 on: 03/19/2018 02:42 pm »
In 1983 I was a student at DAMTP, the department where Stephen worked and taught.
As a tribute his work, and as something fun for the more mathematically inclined members of NSF, I've
posted a scan of my lecture notes from his 1983 quantum cosmology course at
http://planet4589.org/jcm/misc/swh/swh.pdf

I'm feeling very nostalgic about those days in Cambridge. Stephen and the other brilliant minds around him
were inspiring to be around.
You took far better notes than I ever did.  These notes are a cool piece of history.  I thank you for keeping them and sharing them.

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Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #35 on: 03/20/2018 05:51 pm »
His ashes are to be interred in Westminster Abbey near Sir Isaac Newton and other great scientists at a thanksgiving service later in the year.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/20/stephen-hawkings-ashes-to-be-interred-at-westminster-abbey
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« Reply #37 on: 05/03/2018 08:07 pm »
Taming the multiverse: Stephen Hawking’s final theory about the big bang

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/taming-the-multiverse-stephen-hawkings-final-theory-about-the-big-bang

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #38 on: 05/23/2018 12:21 pm »
He still lived 50 more years then expected
RIP legend
The world will miss you badly

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Re: Stephen Hawking has passed away
« Reply #39 on: 06/16/2018 07:18 pm »
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Stephen Hawking’s voice has been beamed into a black hole following the internment of his ashes at Westminster Abbey in London.

The message recorded by the British physicist, which is set to music by Greek composer Vangelis, speaks about the importance of peace and hope.

It was sent by the European Space Agency towards the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which lies in a binary system with a fairly ordinary orange dwarf star, his daughter Lucy Hawking said in a statement.

“It is a message of peace and hope, about unity and the need for us to live together in harmony on this planet,” she said.


“This is a beautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our father’s presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-memorial-death-voice-black-hole-vangelis-song-a8400486.html

 

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