Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSAis an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 January 1942
CityOxford, England
It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.
Perhaps one day I will go into space.
If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
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Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.
My wife and I love each other very much.
I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.
What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.
The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.