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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.
Mar 21, 2018 · Hawking’s last known scientific writing, the paper deals with the concept of the multiverse and a theory known as cosmic inflation. Though the paper currently exists only in pre-print form,...
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If you asked an astrophysicist today to describe what happened after the Big Bang, he would likely start with the concept of “cosmic inflation.” Cosmic inflation argues that right after the Big Bang — we’re talking after a teeny fraction of a second — the universe expanded at breakneck speed like dough in an oven. But this exponential expansion sho...
Last July, Hawking and Hertog presented this new theory of the multiverse during a conference at the University of Cambridge to celebrate Hawking’s 75th birthday. Their idea hinges on the so-called “holographic principle.” As its name suggests, the principle argues that the universe is a hologram. The principle hails from string theory, the branch ...
If time is a removable string, then there could be places or moments in the history of the universe that operate without it. In Hawking and Hertog’s newest theory, time is the fly in the ointment, keeping cosmic inflation from aligning with general relativity. So they treated the moments after the Big Bang, when inflation occurred, as a timeless st...
May 6, 2018 · Stephen Hawking's final paper, submitted just eight days before he died on March 14 at the age of 76, theorizes on multiple universes. And he says it's simpler than we thought.
Mar 20, 2018 · Stephen Hawking’s last paper is titled “A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?” It tackles the idea of a multiverse, a vast collection of universes that exist simultaneously, though they’re spread out almost unimaginably far from each other.
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May 2, 2018 · The theory, which was submitted for publication before Hawking's death earlier this year, is based on string theory and predicts the universe is finite and far simpler than many current theories about the big bang say.
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May 2, 2018 · When Stephen Hawking died on 14 March, the famed theoretical physicist had a few papers still in the works. Today, the Journal of High Energy Physics published his last work in cosmology —the science of how the universe sprang into being and evolved.
