Stephen william hawking (194265438+1October 8th) was born in London, England. Graduated from Oxford University and Trinity College of Cambridge University successively, and obtained a doctorate in philosophy from Cambridge University. He has been in a wheelchair for 40 years, and now only facial muscles can move, and speeches and questions and answers can only be completed by a speech synthesizer. Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, England, the most important contemporary general relativity and cosmologist, is one of the great men who enjoy international reputation in this century, and is known as the greatest scientist in the world and the "king of the universe". Hawking, 1942 10 was born in Oxford, England, on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. In the 1970s, he and Penrose proved the famous singularity theorem, for which they both won the Wolf Prize in Physics of 1988. He is therefore known as the most famous scientific thinker and the most outstanding theoretical physicist in the world after Einstein.
He also proved the area theorem of black holes. Hawking's life is very legendary, and he is one of the most outstanding scientists in history in scientific achievements. His position is the highest professorship in the history of Cambridge University, that is, Lucasson Professor of Mathematics who was once held by Newton and Dirac. He holds several honorary degrees and is a member of the Royal Society.
He suffered from "gradual freezing" (Lou Gehrig's disease of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and stayed in a wheelchair for 40 years. However, he was physically and mentally disabled and turned it into an advantage, overcoming his disability and becoming a supernova in the international physics community. He can't write or even read clearly, but he transcends relativity, quantum mechanics and the Big Bang theory and enters the "geometric dance" to create the universe. Although he was so helpless in a wheelchair, his thoughts traveled brilliantly in the vast space and time, and solved the mystery of the universe.
Hawking's charm lies not only in his legendary physical genius, but also in his convincing life force. His constant pursuit of scientific spirit and brave and tenacious personality strength deeply attracted everyone who knew him.
He is known as "the greatest living scientist", "another Einstein" and "a real life strongman".
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As the undisputed authority of cosmology, the sequel of A Brief History of Time has always attracted readers with its research results and life. The sequel to A Brief History of Time is for readers who want to know more about Professor Hawking's life and his theory. The book describes Professor Hawking's life course and research work in the form of frank and sincere personal interviews, and shows the real "people" behind the huge theoretical framework. This book is not an ordinary oral history, but an extremely touching and charming portrait and description of one of the greatest thoughts of mankind in the twentieth century. For non-professional readers, this book is undoubtedly an opportunity for them to enjoy the fruits of human civilization and a source of valuable inspiration.
Hawking's Lecture-Black Hole, baby universes and Others is a collection of articles and speeches written by Hawking during1976-1992 * *13. This paper discusses the birth of baby universes caused by virtual time and black holes and the efforts of scientists to seek a completely unified theory, and puts forward original opinions on free will, life value and death.
The essence of time and space was expressed in a complete mathematical form 80 years ago, and the basic principles of quantum theory appeared 70 years ago. However, can these two most accurate and successful theories in the whole physics be unified in a single quantum gravity? Two of the most famous physicists in the world debated this question. This book is based on six speeches and final debates given by Hawking and Penrose at Cambridge University.
The charm of the future begins with stephen william hawking's prediction of the next billion years of the universe and ends with Don Kubit's understanding of the final judgment. It introduces the development of prediction and the methods we use to predict the future today. The text of the book is easy to understand. The author expounds his own views and answers some interesting questions, which is very interesting to read.
The Universe in the Shell is Professor Hawking's most important work after A Brief History of Time. In this book, Professor Hawking once again takes us to the forefront of theoretical physics. In Professor Hawking's world, truth is even more dazzling and colorful than fantasy. Professor Hawking explained the principles that restrict our universe in popular language, and with his unique enthusiasm, invited us to travel together in the universe for extraordinary time and space travel.
A Brief History of Time-From BIGBANG to Black Hole (written in 1988) Hawking's best-selling book A Brief History of Time is Hawking's masterpiece. The author's imagination is rich, his ideas are wonderful, his language is beautiful and his words are meticulous, which is even more surprising. The outside world, the future changes are so magical and wonderful. This book has a cumulative circulation of 25 million copies and has been translated into nearly 40 languages.
In this book, Hawking will try to outline the history of the universe in our mind-from the Big Bang to the black hole. In the first lecture, he will briefly review the past ideas about the universe and explain how we get the current image. This may be called the history of the universe.
The second lecture will explain why both Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity have concluded that the universe cannot be static, and it must either expand or contract. This in turn means that there must be a moment between the first 20 billion years and the first 654.38+0 billion years when the density of the universe is infinite, resulting in the so-called Big Bang. This may be the beginning of the universe.
The third class will talk about black holes. A black hole is formed when a huge planet or a larger celestial body is attracted by its own gravity and collapses. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, any fool who is stupid enough to fall into a black hole will disappear forever, and they will never escape from the black hole again. Their history will reach a singularity and a painful end. However, general relativity is a classical theory-that is, it does not consider the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.
The fourth lecture will talk about how quantum mechanics makes energy leak from black holes. Black holes are not as black as people describe.
The fifth lecture will apply the idea of quantum mechanics to the Big Bang and the origin of the universe. This leads to the hypothesis that space-time may be limited, but there is no edge. This may be similar to the surface of the earth, but it has two more dimensions.
The sixth lecture will explain how this new boundary condition explains this problem: although the laws of physics are time symmetric, why is the past so different from the future?
Finally, the seventh lecture will talk about how we try to find a unified theory, which can include the interaction in quantum mechanics, gravity and all other physics. If we do this, we will really understand the universe and our place in it.
This book is not an ordinary oral history, but an extremely touching and charming portrait and description of one of the greatest thoughts of mankind in the twentieth century. For non-professional readers, this book is undoubtedly an opportunity for them to enjoy the fruits of human civilization and a source of valuable inspiration. Hawking's Lecture-Black Hole, baby universes and Others is a collection of articles and speeches written by Hawking during1976-1992 * *13. This paper discusses the birth of baby universes caused by virtual time and black holes, and the efforts of scientists to seek a completely unified theory, and puts forward unique views on free will, the value of life and death. After three years of study, which was not a huge workload, he obtained a first-class honorary degree in natural science, and then went to Cambridge University to study cosmology, when there was no cosmology major at Oxford University. Although he hoped to do research with Fred Hoyle in Cambridge at that time, his tutor was Dens Scarma. After receiving his doctorate, he became a researcher and later a professor at Gonville and Caius College.
1992 The film of the same name cost 3.5 million pounds. Hawking firmly believes that the basic ideas about the universe and the origin of life can be expressed without mathematics, and the world should be able to understand his profound theory through the audio-visual media such as movies. This book is a popular reading about exploring the nature of time and the frontier of the universe. It is the most important classic of contemporary scientific thinking about the universe, and it has changed the human concept of the universe. As the undisputed authority of cosmology, the sequel of A Brief History of Time has always attracted readers with its research results and life. The sequel to A Brief History of Time is for readers who want to know more about Professor Hawking's life and his theory. The book describes Professor Hawking's life course and research work in the form of frank and sincere personal interviews, and shows the real "people" behind the huge theoretical framework.
The Chinese version of George's The Secret of the Universe was published in early 2008. This book is written by Stephen Hawking, his daughter Lucy Hawking and his student Christopher jaafar. It is one of Stephen Hawking's "Children's Popular Science Trilogy". In this book, black holes and many parts briefly describe Hawking's new ideas. This book has received rave reviews at home and abroad.