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.
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.
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'veposted a scan of my lecture notes from his 1983 quantum cosmology course athttp://planet4589.org/jcm/misc/swh/swh.pdfI'm feeling very nostalgic about those days in Cambridge. Stephen and the other brilliant minds around himwere inspiring to be around.
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.”