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Stephen Hawking dies aged 76

posted 7 years ago by Satan2016 (25815)
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Lots of tributes added to article since I posted this.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008

He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.

The Briton was known for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.

At the age of 22 Prof Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease.

Prof Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology as a union of relativity and quantum mechanics.

He also discovered that black holes leak energy and fade to nothing - a phenomenon that would later become known as Hawking radiation.

Through his work with mathematician Sir Roger Penrose he demonstrated that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implies space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes.

[–] Satan2016 (25815) 7 years ago

Was also a voice actor in The Simpsons, Futurama, Red Dwarf, Star Trek TNG, and The Big Bang Theory.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/13/221053162/stephen-hawking-who-awed-both-scientists-and-the-public-dies

Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist at the Arizona State University and a friend and colleague of Hawking's, says that at a young age, Hawking discovered something "truly remarkable."

Karuss says before Hawking, physicists thought that the immense gravity of a black hole would draw everything in and nothing could escape. But by combining quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, Hawking showed something astonishing: That theoretically, at least, some kind of particle had to defy what physicists classically expected from gravity, and radiate out of black holes.

"That radiation is now called Hawking radiation," Krauss told NPR in 2012. "And it changed everything about the way we think about gravity."

[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

End of an era!

[–] Satan2016 (25815) 7 years ago

Obituary: Stephen Hawking http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15555565

[–] Rorikon (18047) 7 years ago

Sad to see him go. I recommend The Theory of Everything 2014 to get a glimpse of his life portrayed in a movie.

[–] PaladinNJ (21588) 6 years ago

A year already