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Home » Books » Philosophy » Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Genres: Philosophy. The first time I met Stephen Hawking, I was struck by his extraordinary power and his vulnerability.
The determined look in his eyes coupled with the immobile body was familiar to me from my research—I had recently been engaged to play the role of Stephen in The Theory of Everything and had spent several months studying his work and the nature of his disability, attempting to understand how to use my body to express the passage of motor neurone disease over time.
And yet when I finally met Stephen, the icon, this scientist of phenomenal talent, whose main communication was through a computerised voice along with a pair of exceptionally expressive eyebrows, I was floored. I tend to get nervous in silences and talk too much whereas Stephen absolutely understood the power of silence, the power of feeling like you are being scrutinised.
Flustered, I chose to talk to him about how our birthdays were only days apart, putting us in the same zodiacal sign. Not an astrologer. I had been told…. The opportunity to portray Stephen was an extraordinary one.
His was a unique, complex, rich story of human endeavour, family life, huge academic achievement and sheer defiance in the face of all obstacles. But it was equally important to portray that side of Stephen which was pure showman.
In my trailer I ended up having three images that I referred to. And the third was James Dean. And that was what I gained from seeing him—the glint and the humour. The greatest pressure in playing a living person is that you will have to account for your performance to the person you have portrayed.
Or otherwise. Generously, Stephen said he had enjoyed the film. Brief answers to the big questions pdf download was moved by it, but famously he also stated that he thought there should have been more physics and fewer feelings. This is impossible to argue with. Since The Theory of EverythingI have stayed in contact with the Hawking family. It was an incredibly sad but brilliant day, full of love and joyful memories and brief answers to the big questions pdf download on this most courageous of men, who had led the world in his science and in his quest to have disabled people recognised and given proper opportunities to thrive.
We have lost a truly beautiful mind, an astonishing scientist and the funniest man I have ever had the pleasure to meet. I hope you enjoy his writings and, brief answers to the big questions pdf download, to quote Barack Obama, I hope Stephen is having fun up there among the stars.
I first met Stephen Hawking in Julybrief answers to the big questions pdf download, in London, England, at a Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, brief answers to the big questions pdf download. Stephen was in the midst of his PhD studies at the University of Cambridge; I had just completed mine at Princeton University. Rumours swirled around the conference halls that Stephen had devised a compelling argument that our universe must have been born at some finite time in the past, brief answers to the big questions pdf download.
It cannot be infinitely old. So, along with some people, I squeezed into a room brief answers to the big questions pdf download for forty, to hear Stephen speak. He walked with a cane and his speech was a bit slurred, but otherwise he showed only modest signs of the motor neurone disease with which he had been diagnosed just two years earlier.
His mind was clearly unaffected. Combining all these in ways that were clever, powerful and compelling, Stephen deduced his result: our universe must have begun in some sort of singular state, roughly ten billion years ago. Over the next decade, Stephen and Roger, combining forces, would go on to prove, ever more convincingly, this singular beginning of time, and also prove ever more convincingly that the core of every black hole is inhabited by a singularity where time ends.
Not just by his argument and conclusion, but more importantly by his insightfulness and creativity. So I sought him out and spent an hour talking privately with him. That was the beginning of a lifelong friendship, a friendship based not just on common science interests, but on a remarkable mutual sympathy, an uncanny ability to understand each other as human beings.
Soon we were spending more time talking about our lives, our loves, and even death than about science, though our science was still much of the glue that bound us together. In September I took Stephen and his wife Jane to Moscow, Russia. Because of his nuclear secrets, he was forbidden to travel to Western Europe or America. He craved discussions with Stephen; he could not come to Stephen; so we went to him. To make a black hole spin requires energy.
We already knew that. A black hole, they explained, can use its spin energy to create particles, brief answers to the big questions pdf download, and the particles will fly away carrying the spin energy with them. This was new and surprising—but not terribly surprising. When an object has energy of motion, brief answers to the big questions pdf download, nature usually finds a way to extract it.
Now, brief answers to the big questions pdf download, the great value of conversations like this is that they can trigger new directions of thought. And so it was with Stephen. It can radiate—and it radiates as though the black hole was hot, like the Sun, though not very hot, just mildly warm. The heavier the hole, the lower its temperature.
A hole that weighs as much as the Sun has a temperature of 0. They opened our eyes to profound connections between general relativity black holesthermodynamics the physics of heat and quantum physics the creation of particles where before there were none.
For example, they led Stephen to prove that a black hole has entropy, which means that somewhere inside or around the black hole there is enormous randomness. It is a question that keeps on generating new insights about the marriage of quantum theory with brief answers to the big questions pdf download relativity—that is, about the ill-understood laws of quantum gravity. In autumn Stephen brought his PhD students and his family his wife Jane and their two children Robert and Lucy to Pasadena, California for a year, so that he and his students could participate in the intellectual life of my university, Caltech, and merge, temporarily, with my own research group.
During that year, Stephen and his students and some of mine struggled to understand black holes more deeply, as did I to some degree. There are only two types of waves that can travel across the universe bringing us information about things far away: electromagnetic waves which include light, X-rays, gamma rays, microwaves, radio waves… ; and gravitational waves.
Electromagnetic waves consist of oscillating electric and magnetic forces that travel at light speed. When they impinge on charged particles, such as the electrons in a brief answers to the big questions pdf download or TV antenna, they shake the particles back and forth, depositing in the particles the information the waves carry.
That information can then be amplified and fed into a loudspeaker or on to a TV screen for humans to comprehend. Gravitational waves, according to Einstein, consist of an oscillatory space warp: an oscillating stretch and squeeze of space.
In Rainer Rai Weiss at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had invented a gravitational-wave detector, in which mirrors hanging inside the corner and ends of an L-shaped vacuum pipe are pushed apart along one leg of the L by the stretch of space, and pushed together along the other leg by the squeeze of space. Rai proposed using laser beams to measure the oscillating pattern of this stretch and squeeze.
During the years since then, electromagnetic astronomy has completely revolutionised our understanding of the universe. In my students and I began thinking about what we might learn about the universe using gravitational waves: we began developing a vision for gravitational-wave astronomy. Because gravitational waves are a form of space warp, they are produced most strongly by objects that themselves are made wholly or partially from warped space—time—which means, especially, by black holes.
More generally, it seemed to us, gravitational waves are so radically different from electromagnetic waves that they were almost guaranteed to create their own, new revolution in our understanding of the universe, perhaps comparable to the enormous electromagnetic revolution that followed Galileo— if these elusive waves could be detected and monitored. The challenge of measuring such tiny motions was enormous.
Stephen was helpful in this as, several years earlier, he and his student Gary Gibbons had designed a gravitational-wave detector of their own which they never built. And the rest, as they say, is history. On September 14,the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors built by a 1,person project that Rai and I and Ronald Drever co-founded, and Barry Barish organised, assembled and led registered their first gravitational waves.
By comparing the wave patterns with predictions from computer simulations, our team concluded that the waves were produced when two heavy black holes, 1. This was the beginning of gravitational-wave astronomy. Our team had achieved, for gravitational waves, what Galileo achieved for electromagnetic waves. During our glorious year of —5, while I was dithering over gravitational waves, and Stephen was leading our merged group in black hole research, Stephen himself had an insight even more radical than his discovery of Hawking radiation.
He gave a compelling, brief answers to the big questions pdf download, almost airtight proof that, when a black hole forms and then subsequently evaporates away completely by emitting radiation, the information that went into the black hole cannot come back out. Information is inevitably lost.
This is radical because the laws of quantum physics insist unequivocally that information can never get totally lost. So, if Stephen was right, black holes violate a most fundamental quantum brief answers to the big questions pdf download law. How could this be? The great majority of theoretical physicists find this conclusion abhorrent. They are highly sceptical. And so, for forty-four years they have struggled with this so-called information-loss paradox.
It is a struggle well worth the effort and anguish that have gone into it, since this paradox is a powerful key for understanding the quantum gravity laws. Stephen did not prove that the information escapes, so the struggle continues. Hawking gave us questions. When ultimately we master the quantum gravity laws, and comprehend fully the birth of our universe, it may largely be by standing on the shoulders of Hawking. I have shied away from big questions. Stephen, by contrast, was always attracted to big questions, whether they were deeply rooted in his science or not.
He did have the necessary skills, wisdom and self-confidence. This book is a compilation of his answers to the big questions, answers on which he was still working at the time of his death. Is there a God? How did it all begin? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole?
Is time travel possible? How do we shape the future? His answers to the other four big questions cannot possibly be rooted solidly in his science. Will we survive on Earth? Is there other intelligent life in the universe?
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