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  2. Stephen Hawking - Wikipedia

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    Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, ... [138] also stating "If we discover a complete theory, ...

  3. A Brief History of Time - Wikipedia

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    This chapter discusses an aspect of black holes' behavior that Stephen Hawking discovered in the 1970s. According to earlier theories, black holes can only become larger, and never smaller, because nothing which enters a black hole can come out. However, in 1974, Hawking published a new theory which argued that black holes can "leak" radiation.

  4. Tipler cylinder - Wikipedia

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    An objection to the practicality of building a Tipler cylinder was discovered by Stephen Hawking, who argued that according to general relativity it is impossible to build a time machine in any finite region that satisfies the weak energy condition, meaning that the region contains no exotic matter with negative energy. The Tipler cylinder, on ...

  5. Stephen Hawking may have cracked massive mystery of ... - AOL

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    Stephen Hawking provided a ground-breaking solution to one of the most mysterious aspects of black holes, called the "information paradox." Black holes look like they 'absorb' matter. Every time a ...

  6. Stephen Hawking had a 'sense of humor as vast as the ... - AOL

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    Celebrities, public figures and scientists from around the world have begun sending tributes to physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at 76 early Wednesday.

  7. Hawking radiation - Wikipedia

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    Hawking radiation is black body radiation released outside a black hole's event horizon due to quantum effects according to a model developed by Stephen Hawking in 1974. [1] The radiation was not predicted by previous models which assumed that once electromagnetic radiation is inside the event horizon, it cannot escape.

  8. “Today I Learned”: 30 Interesting And Weird Facts To Satisfy ...

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    He was discovered after takeoff. ... TIL that Stephen Hawking lived longer after diagnosis (55 years) than any other known individual with ALS. Image credits: Flashy-Anybody6386 #9.

  9. Theory of everything - Wikipedia

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    In Einstein's day, the strong and the weak forces had not yet been discovered, yet he found the potential existence of two other distinct forces, gravity and electromagnetism, far more alluring. This launched his 40-year voyage in search of the so-called "unified field theory" that he hoped would show that these two forces are really ...