Stephen Hawking- The unknown facts

 The Unknown Sides of Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of astronomer Galileo Galilei. Although this wasn’t a person who believed in predestination. He was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942, to well-educated parents. Isobel Eileen Hawking earned her thanks to the University of Oxford at a time when few women got a degree. She studied economics, philosophy, and politics and later worked as a medical research secretary. Frank Hawking also visited Oxford and studied medicine, specializing in tropical diseases. Frank’s research took them to London but when Isobel became pregnant with Stephen, she left the capital for Oxford to hunt a safer place. London was still reeling from the aftermath of the Blitz in 1941. After the birth of Stephen, two sisters followed Philippa and Mary further as an adopted brother, Edward.

Stephen began his education in Highgate, a suburb of London, at the Byron House School, an awfully progressive school. Hawking said the teachers didn’t believe drilling things into the scholars and he blamed this on his inability to read until he was eight years old. When he was eight, the family moved north of London, to St Albans, Hertfordshire, when Frank became head of the Department of Parasitology at the National Institute for Medical Research. He wanted Stephen to travel into medicine further, but his son was already enamored by the celebrities and spent much of his time staring at the sky and beyond. The Hawkings was eccentric. rather than chatting while having dinner, they each sat silently reading a book. They lived in an exceedingly large, messy house and kept bees within the basement. and that they traveled around in an old London taxi. Stephen’s family placed a high value on education. When he was 13, his father wanted him to induce into the highly regarded Westminster School, immediately next to Westminster Abbey. 

But Stephen fell ill and didn’t sit for the scholarship exam. Without it, they couldn’t afford the varsity fees. So he remained as a student at St Alban's School. and maybe that was an honest thing. it absolutely was at St Alban's that he met an inspirational teacher, Dikran Tahta. Hawking said Tahta opened his eyes to the blueprint of the universe: mathematics. Together, they built Hawking’s first computer from old clock parts and a telephone switchboard. Hawking would say: “Behind every exceptional person, there's an exceptional teacher.” He originally wanted to check mathematics at university but his father was worried that there weren’t many roles for math grads. Stephen would win a scholarship to check physics at Oxford. For his first 18 months as a college student, he was bored and located the work ridiculously easy. He was also lonely and didn’t have much of a social life That changed when he decided to hitch his college club. 

His loud voice and light-weight made him the right coxswain - the person answerable of the boat. A fellow boatman remarked that he often appeared like he had “...his head within the stars, understanding mathematical formulae.” But he didn’t put a lot of effort into his studies. He said he spent only an hour daily on the average working during his entire time at Oxford. That made exams difficult and it nearly jeopardized a first-class degree which he needed to urge admitted to the University of Cambridge for postgraduate studies. His results were on the border between first and second-class honors so he had to require a viva. During the oral, he was asked to explain his plans. He responded: "If you award me a primary, I will be able to head to Cambridge. If I receive a Second, I shall stay in Oxford, so I expect you'll give me a primary." Hawking received a first-class Bachelor’sdegree in physics in 1962 and commenced grad work at Cambridge in cosmology, the study of the universe. He was disappointed to seek out he had been assigned physicist Dennis Sciama as his supervisor instead of the more famous astronomer astrophysicist. However, this clothed to be a blessing in disguise. 

Hoyle was rarely at the department while Sciamawas are always desperate to talk which helped stimulate Hawking’s own scientific vision. Hoyle was also not a follower of the large Bang theory- the speculation that the universe had a beginning when it exploded with unimaginable force. He was the one who coined the term ‘big bang to ridicule the speculation. On the opposite hand, Sciama was happy for Hawkingto to analyze the start of your time. But before he could delve deeply into his research, he received devastating news. He noticed he had been getting increasingly clumsy during his time at Oxford. He fell down some stairs and therefore the only suggestion the doctor had was that he lay off the beer.

However, in 1963, while at Cambridge, Hawking was diagnosed with a neuron disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALSwhich gradually paralyzes an individual because the brain can now not control the muscles. Doctors gave him two years to measure. He was just 21 years old. Hawking became deeply depressed. He felt there was no point in continuing his studies. He wrote in his memoir: "I felt it had been very unfair — why should this happen to me? At the time, I believed my life was over which I might never realize the potential I felt I had." However, the disease progressed slower than expected. Sciama encouraged Hawking to return to his research. Hawking’s greatest work revolutionized how we expect about black holes: a wonderfully circular region of space that’s formed when a star collapses at the top of its life cycle. Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity had predicted black holes. the idea explains how gravity distorts spacetime. The gravitational pull of a part is so strong that nothing can escape it, not even light. And it warps the environment sort of a carnival mirror. 

Einstein wasn’t entirely convinced that these mysterious monsters existed. The work of British mathematician Sir RogerPenrose proved general relativity theory really does result in the formation of black holes. And for that, he won an award, in 2020. Hawking became obsessive about black holes. And made a variety of important discoveries about them including that they’re not entirely black. He discovered that they emit light just outside the event horizon - which is that the boundary between normal space and also the space suffering from the black hole’s gravity where nothing can escape. He believed the slow leak of what’s now referred to as Hawking radiation would cause the part to evaporate over time. He had a knack for creating bets about black holes, too. He and physicist Kip Thorne teamed up to bet that black holes swallow information, losing it forever, while physicist John Preskillthought that was nonsense and believed this information would be recovered through the radiation. 

This puzzle remains unresolved but Hawking conceded the bet and as a concession gift, gave Preskill an encyclopedia of his choice: one on baseball. Hawking used his research on regions to answer a much bigger question: where did our universe originate? He took inspiration from Penrose’s work which showed that deep inside a black hole, a singularity exists. Where all conceptions of space and time break down. Hawking applied identical thinking to the universe: it also began during a singularity, adding credence to the massive bang theory that the universe began at one point in time. But that doesn’t mean he believed there was a creator behind it all. He wrote: “Because there's a law like gravity, the universe can and can create itself from nothing...It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.” Blue touch paper could be relevant fireworks. 

That’s a special outlook than the daddy of the large Bang Theory, who felt the law of gravity was created by a creator. I talked about the lifetime of Georges Lemaître, a scientist and priest, during a previous video which I’ll link within the description. Hawking was known to muse about God’s existence,once telling Reuters: “The laws may are decreed by God, but God doesn't interveneto break the laws.” (Reuters 2007) However, in the end, he was an atheist, althoughhe did fall taken with with a Christian. Stephen met Jane Wilde at a celebration in theirhometown of St Albans. He, a physics student at Cambridge, she, anEnglish student at the University of London. They met round the time of his health prognosis. Hawking said Jane gave him something to livefor. They got married in 1965 and thought theydidn’t have plenty of your time together. Turns out, they'd be married for 30 yearsand have 3 children. His health problems were a continuing strainon their marriage. Jane said she sought strength from her faithas Stephen’s illness worsened and she or he became his caregiver: feeding him, dressing him,bathing him, being by his side through his many hospital visits. But she also once said their marriage wasstrained for one more reason. She remarked: “The truth was, there werefour partners in our marriage. Stephen and me, nerve cell disease and physics.” She remarked: “The truth was, there werefour partners in our marriage. Stephen and me,motor neuron disease and physics.” She felt shut of his scientific worldwhere his work didn’t block despite his physical decline. When he lost his ability to put in writing, he developedunique ways of thinking. He had to depend on doing complicated equationsin his head. 

A physicist compared this to Mozart composingan entire symphony in his mind! Although the cruel disease robbed him of hisability to maneuver and slurred his speech, his intellect remained sharp. He was elected to the academy, the UK’snational science academy, at the age of 32. And in 1979, he rose to become the LucasianProfessor of Mathematics at Cambridge - the foremost famous academic chair within the world - onceheld by Sir mathematician. He would give lectures and speeches with thehelp of a computer-generated voice. are you able to hear me? He opted to not change his voice to a morenatural-sounding one afterward because this had already become his trademark. 

He didn’t actually lose his ability to speakentirely until 1985 when he caught pneumonia while on a visit to a look center in Switzerland. He was so ill he had to be placed on life support. When doctors asked his wife if they shouldremove his ventilator, Jane refused. that they had to chop a hole in his neck and placea tube in his windpipe to assist him breathe. The tracheotomy removed what was left of hisspeech. so as to speak, he chose letterson a spelling card by raising his eyebrows. Later, he received a worm fromAmerican engineer Walter Woltosz (wall-toesszz), whose mother suffered from ALS. 

Hawking could choose words from the database with a click. on the other hand, he lost control of his hand and had to resort to twitching his musculus buccinator to pick the letters. This was painfully slow, and he could only manage a word or two a moment. So he reached dead set Intel for help. Researchers worked on a state-of-the-art system that will interpret his intentions, reasonably just like the iPhone’s predictive text feature. Intel worked with London startup SwiftKeyon a word predictor which analyzed Hawking’s papers to urge a much better idea of his writing habits. for instance, when he selected the word ‘black’ it automatically predicted that ‘hole’ would follow. it had been because of technology that Hawking could put his ground-breaking research into book form. He published his best-known ad in 1988. a short History of your time sold 1,000,000 copies in exactly the primary year - remarkable for a book about science - although many readers didn't finish it. it had been very dense, even after Hawking omitted all equations except one so as to appeal to the masses. He only left in Einstein’s iconic e = mc2. 

Hawking was already well-known before the book's release but became a celeb afterward. He appeared on the Simpsons, the massive Bang Theory, and Star Trek. He became a “cult-like” figure who also had a mischievous streak. He was rumored to use his wheelchair to run over the toes of individuals who annoyed him. Prince Charles was apparently a victim. His fame also put both his professional and private life within the spotlight. Hawking ended up leaving Jane for one of all the nurses who cared for him, Elaine Mason. Mason’s husband was the engineer who attachedHawking’s speech synthesizer to his wheelchair. 

Hawking said he grew more and more unhappy at the connection between Jane and Jonathan Jones, an organist at the local church, who actually moved in with the Hawkings when Stephen was expected to die young, and Jane wanted someone who could support the kids. Jane married Jones after Hawking married Elaine in 1995. His second marriage is alleged to possess caused friction along with his children. They, too, would divorce after a decade together. And later resumed a better relationship together with his first wife and his children. During an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABCNews, he talked about the foremost important advice he gave his kids. 

He said: "One, remember to appear up at the celebs and not down at your feet. Two, never surrender work. Work gives you meaning, and purpose and life are empty without it. Three, if you're lucky enough to search out love, recall it is rare, and do not throw it away." And with the planet, he once shared this: “And however difficult life could appear, there's always something you'll do, and succeed at. It matters that you just don't just hand over.” He put it in another, more humorous way once at the University of Oxford. If you're feeling you're in an exceeding region, donative up After 50 years of living with ALS, Hawking kicked the bucket peacefully at his home, on March 14, 2018, at the age of 76. His funeral was passed at a church in Cambridge. Guests included the actors from the film about his life, the speculation of Everything. The movie’s title may be with respect to one theory that Hawking hoped to seek out to possess a whole understanding of the universe. One theory to clarify how it all worked. 

It’s one of the main unsolved problems in physics today. Despite all that he had accomplished there have been things he dreamt of doing but never did. He never got the prospect to fly to space, although he did travel aboard Zero Gravity’s Boeing 727 to experience weightlessness. He was a robust advocate of the voyage and living on other planets. By the tip of the century, I really hope humans are living on Mars. He was seriously worried about what he saw as potential threats to humanity: nuclear war, global climate change, epidemics, asteroids, and therefore the rise of computing. Hawking’s ashes were buried in WestminsterAbbey shortly from the graves of two other famous scientists, Newton, and naturalists. While he didn’t believe in predestination, the brilliant scientist who was born on the day Sir Newton died, died on the day physicist was born.