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I Am An Astrophysicist. Here’s What Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper Was Actually About
quote: it isn’t the end of the Universe, and it’s not likely to lead to new evidence for the Multiverse, either
Ethan Siegel
The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist
... His final paper, entitled A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? (preprint here), focuses on the birth of the Universe as we know it. Regardless of how it all turns out, these fundamental questions will continue to delight, puzzle, and frustrate physicists as we search for the ultimate answers to the true nature of the Universe itself.
Physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking presents a program in Seattle in 2012. Note his (outdated) assertion that a singularity, and the Big Bang, precedes the epoch of cosmic inflation, which is the earliest epoch we have any certainty about. (AP Photo / Ted S. Warren)
I Am An Astrophysicist. Here’s What Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper Was Actually About
quote: it isn’t the end of the Universe, and it’s not likely to lead to new evidence for the Multiverse, either
Ethan Siegel
The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist
... His final paper, entitled A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? (preprint here), focuses on the birth of the Universe as we know it. Regardless of how it all turns out, these fundamental questions will continue to delight, puzzle, and frustrate physicists as we search for the ultimate answers to the true nature of the Universe itself.
Physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking presents a program in Seattle in 2012. Note his (outdated) assertion that a singularity, and the Big Bang, precedes the epoch of cosmic inflation, which is the earliest epoch we have any certainty about. (AP Photo / Ted S. Warren)