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Stephen Hawking Research Paper

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There are a lot of definitions of honor, but the most common one is someone or something with high respect. My view of honor is someone doing the right thing when no one is looking even though it may be hard to do. Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942 to Frank and Isobel Hawking. This date was also the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo. He is the oldest of the four kids, Mary, Philippa, and Edward. (biography.com) When Stephen was two weeks old, the neighbor's house was destroyed by a V2 rocket and he was almost killed. (csupomona.edu) He went to the college that his father attended, Oxford University, at the age of seventeen. Hawking studied physics because Oxford did not offer mathematics. He …show more content…

"A singularity is a place on either space or time at which some quantity becomes infinite (without an end). Such a place is found in a black hole, the final stage of a collapsed star, where the gravitational field has infinite strength." Singularity could exist in the space - time in a real universe is what Penrose proved. (notable biographies.com) Hawking used the work of both Penrose and Albert Einstein to demonstrate that our universe has its origins in a singularity. In the universe all of the matter in the beginning was concentrated in a single point, making a tremendously dense body that was very small. The body exploded in the big bang that initiated time and the universe ten to twenty billion years ago. Hawking produced astrophysical research that supports the big bang theory of the origin of the universe. This was in opposition to the competing steady-state theory. (notable biographies.com) The black hole, the best known singularity, is what led him to study from his research. The event horizon or the black hole's edges can be detected. The surface area of event horizon could only increase, not decrease, and that, when two black holes merged, the surface area of the new hole was larger than the sum of the two original, is was hawking proved . (notable

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