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- Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own. The theory resolves a cosmic paradox of the late physicist's own making. It also points a way forward for astronomers to find evidence of the existence of parallel universes.
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May 2, 2018 · Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing his last theory on the origin of the Universe, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven.
May 2, 2018 · “We are not down to a single, unique universe, but our findings imply a significant reduction of the multiverse, to a much smaller range of possible universes,” said Hawking. This makes the theory more predictive and testable.
- Infinite Big Bangs
- 'Control The Multiverse'
- Others More Sceptical
Hawking predicted that our big bang was just one in an infinite number of big bangs that occurred simultaneously — each of them creating its own separate universe. But if other universes exist, we have no way to find them, and no way to test the theory. That loose thread had long been a sore point for Hawking, Hertog said. "This was very much on th...
So, he said, Hawking came to him a few years ago and said, "Alright, let's try to control the multiverse." That's what they set out to do in what would become Hawking's last scientific paper. He and Hertog laid out the mathematics needed to build a space probe that would be capable of detecting powerful gravitational waves created by multiple big b...
Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department and director of Harvard's Institute for Theory and Computation, told Mashablethe paper puts forward "a very interesting idea," but uses "an approach that's questionable." "More work is needed to flesh it out in more detail," Loeb said. 1. Bob McDonald: Disagreeing with Stephen Hawking But Hertog s...
Jan 9, 2022 · Stephen Hawking's final research, developed with Thomas Hertog and published in 2018, challenges the conventional Big Bang theory by suggesting the universe is finite and simpler than previously thought. Based on string theory and holography, their work argues against the idea of an eternally inflat
On the sixth anniversary of Stephen Hawking's death, close friend and colleague Thomas Hertog unpacks the trailblazing physicist's thoughts on the Big Bang's origins.
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When I first met Stephen Hawking in his Cambridge office in 1998 he had mixed feelings about the multiverse –the idea that our universe is but one of many. Together, we set out on a quest to...
