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April 18, 2007

Stephen Hawking On Black Holes

Topics: General Science

I've always enjoyed reading about Stephen Hawking, and when my son, now in Iraq, was only 11, we actually had lunch with him in Salt Lake City, Utah and had my son's picture taken with him. So, when I saw this posted at LiveLeak today, I couldn't resist putting it up.

"Science had long predicted that if a sufficiently large star collapsed at the end of its life, all the matter left in the star would be crushed into an infinitely small point with infinite gravity and infinite density -- a singularity. Hawking realised that the Universe was, in effect, a black hole in reverse.Instead of matter being crushed into a singularity, the Universe began when a singularity expanded to form everything we see around us today, from stars to planets to people. Hawking realised that to come to a complete understanding of the Universe he would have to unravel the mysteries of the black hole."

Here's more Stephen Hawking that was also put up today.

Origins of the Universe - Stephen Hawking (1 of 5):

Stephen Hawking says Universe created from "nothing".Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture on March 13 2007, Hawking said that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from "nothing" without violating the laws of physics (no god(s) required). He said more work is needed to prove this but we have time because 'Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.'
Please note that "nothing" to a theoretical physicist does not literally mean nothing

Posted by Richard at April 18, 2007 2:04 PM

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Comments

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