STEPHEN J. HAWKING

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Stephen Hawking Science Project. The conclusion didn't fit. Also, I'm not really sure what his middle name is. Stephen J. Hawking by Rachel Finck         Stephen Hawking was born in January of 1942 in Oxford, England. He grew up near London and was educated at Oxford, from which he received his BA in 1962, and Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics. Stephen Hawking is a brilliant and highly productive researcher, and, since 1979, he has held the Lucasian professorship in mathematics at Cambridge, the very chair once held by Isaac Newton. Although still relatively young, Hawking is already being compared to such great intellects as Newton and Albert Einstein. Yet it should be noted that since the early 1960s he ...

... that the universe has a unique history, yet since the discovery of quantum mechanics, we have to consider the universe as having every possible history. To grasp the concept of imaginary time, think of real time as horizontal line. Early times are on the left, and late times are on the right. Then think of lines going 90° from the horizontal line of real time. These lines, which are at right angles to real time, represent imaginary time. The importance of imaginary time lies in the fact that the universe is curved in on itself, leading to singularities. At the singularities, the equations of physics cannot be defines, thus one cannot predict what will happen.

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