2023-06-24 02:14:07
Stephen William Hawking, known to many science lovers and fans, seen as the most notable exponent in recent times with his work in theoretical physics and for his great career as a science popularizer.
Born in Oxford in 1942, Stephen was a British scientist who made great contributions to the fields of study to which he devoted his time, physics, theory, astronomy, cosmologist, these are some examples of the knowledge he had.
Developing together with other scientists theories such as space-time singularities or the prediction that black holes emit radiation.
This scientist is also characterized by the degenerative disease that his body carried, multiple lateral sclerosis, which stripped him of his health, and with it, the movement of his body, leaving him in a state of conscious paralysis, even losing his voice, forcing him to use a voice generating device, from which a robotic voice came out with the message that the scientist wanted to convey.
But even this condition did not stop Hawking from continuing his life’s work, persisting with the help of other scientists to make steady progress. This was the case with Thomas Hertog, who was his co-worker for more than 25 years.
Hertog assures that the work dynamic he had with Stephen was unique, they did such a good job that on many occasions words were not even necessary to understand each other.
These two great scientists were working on what is possibly the last theory in which Hawking was involved before his death in March 2018, a theory that seeks to change the way we see the universe.
This work by both scientists was published and delivered to the general public in the book written and published by Hertog in 2023 ”On the origin oh time” (or ”on the origins of time” in Spanish). In this book, Hertog states that it is a job they have been working on for approximately 20 years.
Despite the disease that was wearing down the brilliant scientist, he had to develop, together with his colleague, a way of expressing himself assertively with his partner. Hawking began to develop a hypothesis in which he said that the universe we observe seems to have a very precise design, such that it is in chaos or random.
For more than 15 years Hawking and Hertog had been working on quantum theory for the development of a new hypothesis in physics and cosmology, but with the perspective of an internal observer who helps to understand how the universe and the laws that govern it. are so perfectly adequate for himself and for the development of life.
Over time working together, the hypothesis that an element was missing became more and more true. The development of this theory goes back to what happened in the Big Bang, where it is proposed that unlike what is believed that this explosion of cosmic proportions began the set of physical, chemical and biological rules that we already know, In reality, this event started a set of laws that has evolved along with the universe, thus adapting the rules to the universe and not the universe to the rules.
So, in theory, if one could go back in time far enough, we would see a universe governed by very different laws than the ones we know today, becoming simpler, or failing that, disappearing.
Hertog and Hawking knew that the proof of their theory was extremely difficult, since the ravages of the first times after the Big Bang are hidden by the time and space that the universe has had to evolve.
Although they believed that this could be demonstrated or not with the help of the study of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time and, for those not yet so developed, quantum holograms programmed in quantum computers.
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