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Stephen Hawking

Who wants to be an ordinary scientist

About Me

I am the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. I have 3 children and 1 grandchild. I enjoy traveling the world giving lectures on the state of our universe, writing books, and spending time with my family. I suffer from ALS and am very active in charities and helping people with this disability. This is my passion, second only to my love of the science of cosmology.

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My Interests

Cosmology, Black Holes, String Theory, M Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Theory of Relativity, The Universal Theory, Gravity

I'd like to meet:

People who are interested in furthering science and the persuit of the origins of our universe.

Music:

Miles Davis, John Coltrain, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Otis Redding, Barry White, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson

Movies:

Scar Face, The Matrix, Jackie Brown, James Bond, Boogie Nights, Black Hawk Down, Pulp Fiction, Casino, Good Fellas, Wall Street, Vanilla Sky, Caddey Shack, Montey Python

Television:

Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Friends, Grays Anatomy, Sienfield, Nip Tuck, Miami Vice, Threes Company, The Young and The Restless, Dallas, Sex In The City, The Sopranos

Books:

A Briefer History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes, The Illistrated A Briefer History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, Euclid's Window, Feynman's Rainbow

Heroes:

Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton

My Blog

Rotation, nut charge and anti de sitter space

Black Hole EntropyThe idea is that the Euclidean sections of black hole metrics are periodic in the imaginary time coordinate. Thus they represent black holes in equilibrium with thermal radiation. Ho...
Posted by Stephen Hawking on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:22:00 PST

Quantum Cosmology, M-Theory and the Anthropic Principal

Cosmology used to be regarded as a pseudo science, an area where wild speculation, was unconstrained by any reliable observations. We now have lots and lots of observational data, and a generally agre...
Posted by Stephen Hawking on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:21:00 PST

Gravitational Entropy

The first indication of a connection between black holes and entropy, came in 1970, with my discovery that the area of the horizon of a black hole, always increased. There was an obvious analogy with ...
Posted by Stephen Hawking on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:19:00 PST

Life in the Universe

In this talk, I would like to speculate a little, on the development of life in the universe, and in particular, the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even ...
Posted by Stephen Hawking on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:09:00 PST

Does God Play Dice?

This lecture is about whether we can predict the future, or whether it is arbitrary and random. In ancient times, the world must have seemed pretty arbitrary. Disasters such as floods or diseases must...
Posted by Stephen Hawking on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:07:00 PST

Space and Time Warps

This lecture is the intellectual property of Professor S.W. Hawking. You may not reproduce, edit or distribute this document in anyway for monetary advantage. In science fiction, space and time warps ...
Posted by Stephen Hawking on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:06:00 PST

The Beginning of Time

In this lecture, I would like to discuss whether time itself has a beginning, and whether it will have an end. All the evidence seems to indicate, that the universe has not existed forever, but that i...
Posted by Stephen Hawking on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:03:00 PST