{"id":1381,"date":"2018-03-14T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2018-03-14T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:32:20","slug":"stephen-hawking-cosmologys-brightest-star-dies-aged-76-watch-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/news\/stephen-hawking-cosmologys-brightest-star-dies-aged-76-watch-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking, cosmology&#8217;s brightest star, dies aged 76 : Watch Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: \u2018We will miss him for ever\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch\u00a0 Video :<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bp5Q9_fUNzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/hawking\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Hawking<\/a>, the brightest star in the firmament of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and inspired global audiences in the millions, has died aged 76.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-3 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2b96bb9fc4650aec4b3625a64a014671a7ee576\/0_0_1710_1026\/master\/1710.jpg?ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\n<h1 class=\"rich-link__title\"><a class=\"rich-link__link\">A brief history of Stephen Hawking&#8217;s A Brief History of Time<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__arrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more-text\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his death at his home in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking\u2019s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim said in a statement: \u201cWe are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe once said: \u2018It would not be much of a universe if it wasn\u2019t home to the people you love.\u2019 We will miss him for ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For fellow scientists and loved ones, it was Hawking\u2019s intuition and wicked sense of humour that marked him out as much as the fierce intellect which, coupled with his illness, came to symbolise the unbounded possibilities of the human mind.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hawking was driven to Wagner, but not the bottle, when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21. Doctors expected him to live for only two more years. But Hawking had a form of the disease that progressed more slowly than usual. He survived for more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking once estimated he worked only 1,000 hours during his three undergraduate years at Oxford. In his finals, he came borderline between a first and second class degree. Convinced that he was seen as a difficult student, he told his viva examiners that if they gave him a first he would move to Cambridge to pursue his PhD. Award a second and he threatened to stay. They opted for a first.<\/p>\n<p>Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most. For Hawking, the early diagnosis of his terminal disease, and witnessing the death from leukaemia of a boy he knew in hospital, ignited a fresh sense of purpose. \u201cAlthough there was a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research,\u201d he once said. Embarking on his career in earnest, he declared: \u201cMy goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>He began to use crutches in the 1960s, but long fought the use of a wheelchair. When he finally relented, he became notorious for his wild driving along the streets of Cambridge, not to mention the intentional running over of students\u2019 toes and the occasional spin on the dance floor at college parties.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-3 | 2\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-media--item rich-link--gallery rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c8c688bb91d76ccd80dec322809e0042ef4c88b9\/275_358_4713_2828\/master\/4713.jpg?ssl=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\n<h1 class=\"rich-link__title\"><a class=\"rich-link__link\">The life of Stephen Hawking \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__arrow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Hawking\u2019s first\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/314\/1519\/529\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major breakthrough<\/a>\u00a0came in 1970, when he and\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/audio\/2016\/sep\/20\/cross-section-sir-roger-penrose-science-weekly-podcast\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Penrose<\/a>applied the mathematics of black holes to the universe and showed that a singularity, a region of infinite curvature in spacetime, lay in our distant past: the point from which came the big bang.<\/p>\n<p>Penrose found he was able to talk with Hawking even as the latter\u2019s speech failed. Hawking, he said, had an absolute determination not to let anything get in his way. \u201cHe thought he didn\u2019t have long to live, and he really wanted to get as much as he could done at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1974 Hawking drew on quantum theory to declare that black holes should emit heat and eventually pop out of existence. For normal-sized black holes, the process is extremely slow, but miniature black holes would release heat at a spectacular rate, eventually exploding with the energy of a million one-megaton hydrogen bombs.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>His proposal that black holes radiate heat stirred up one of the most passionate debates in modern cosmology. Hawking argued that if a black hole could evaporate, all the information that fell inside over its lifetime would be lost forever. It contradicted one of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics, and plenty of physicists disagreed. Hawking came round to believing the more common, if no less baffling, explanation that information is stored at a black hole\u2019s event horizon, and encoded back into radiation as the black hole radiates.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Source : The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. 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