Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking
2010
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Purchase the DVD. In each of six episodes, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking presents three ordinary people with a series of physical and mental challenges to show them how to think like a genius ...
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In each of six episodes, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking...
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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...
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Stephen Hawking's Universe. Stephen Hawking's Universe is an astronomical documentary from 1997 made for the Public Broadcasting Service featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The six-episode series discusses the history of astronomy as well as black holes and dark matter .
Mar 14, 2018 · Stephen Hawking overcame the loss of his working limbs and voice to become the best-known theoretical physicist of his era, upending the scientific consensus that nothing escapes the intense ...
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Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England on Jan. 8, 1942, 300 years to the day after the death of astronomer Galileo. His father Frank and mother Isobel, a research biologist and a ...
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Preview: Episode 4 | 30s. My List. Join Stephen Hawking as he challenges three ordinary people to work out where the universe came from. Hawking leads the trio on an extraordinary journey of ...
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