– Stephen Hawking’s latest legacy that changed the map of Juron
– Stephen Hawking × Thomas Hertoch, the definitive edition of 20 years of joint research
If one had to choose a scientist who represents our time, many would think of Stephen Hawking (1942-2018). Next, a physicist is depicted sitting in a wheelchair and communicating with the world through a computer.
Stephen Hawking, who is reported to have said: “If he were alive, he would have received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 together with Roger Penrose in recognition of his achievements in research into the beginning and end of time”, is a celestial body that He left so many traces in the world of physics that it is hard to believe that he did not receive the Nobel Prize. He is a physicist.
“Why did the universe become a welcoming place for life?”
The greatest intellect of our time died in March 2018, leaving behind only the questions he had sought answers to all his life. Five years later, in 2023, the answer to that question and Hawking’s final legacy to the universe were officially revealed to the world through his co-researcher Thomas Hertoch.
This book, “The Origin of Time,” is, in a word, the definitive cosmology that Stephen Hawking left to the world. The author, Thomas Hertoch, is currently a professor of theoretical physics at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His relationship with Hawking began when he entered the Hawking Doctoral Fellowship at Cambridge University in 1998.
From then on, for twenty years, the author had the honor of studying cosmology in close contact with Hawking.
As Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and professor of natural philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, said, “Hertoch resembles his teacher Hawking in that he has no hesitation in developing an unconventional cosmology,” and the author is one of many outstanding physicists produced by Hawking. He is a person.
This book is an opportunity to take a look at the bold research results of a physicist with a promising future named Thomas Hertoch and, at the same time, contains Hawking’s life as a scholar who dedicated his life to space research, so like his, the life of a human being who has never lost his humor despite the difficulties. It is a book, an essay and a memoir in honor of him.
Hawking’s research team, led by the author, struggled for several years to discover the secret of creating a life-friendly universe, starting with research on the Big Bang, and eventually arrived at a cosmology that allows existence of life. To resolve the contradictions of the multiverse hypothesis, which has been controversial, we explore the extremes of quantum physics called the “holographic universe” and go back in time to trace its origin, where particles, forces and even time disappear and the laws of physics become extreme. We have discovered a profound level of evolution that simplifies to .
This leads to the conclusion that “the laws of physics are not fixed, but have evolved together with the formation of the universe”, and it is no coincidence that the title of this book brings to mind “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin . In the 25 years since the publication of Hawking’s bestseller A Brief History of Time in 1988, Hawking’s cosmology began to resemble Darwin’s theory of evolution.
What does it mean to live as Earth’s caretaker in a life-friendly universe? Hawking spent the final moments of his life searching for answers to these profound questions. This fact alone makes The Origin of Time, which can be said to be his last work, a precious legacy of science.
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