Stephen Hawking, a Physicist Transcending Space and Time, Passes Away at 76
Stephen Hawking, a Physicist Transcending Space and Time, Passes Away at 76
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 15, 20185m 37s
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Show Notes
For arguably the most famous physicist on Earth, Stephen Hawking—who died Wednesday in Cambridge at 76 years old—was wrong a lot. He thought, for a while, that black holes destroyed information, which physics says is a no-no. He thought Cygnus X-1, an emitter of X-rays over 6,000 light years away, wouldn’t turn out to be a black hole. (It did.) He thought no one would ever find the Higgs boson, the particle indirectly responsible for the existence of mass in the universe.
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