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Hawkings sidste store teori
Hawkings sidste store teori
Stephen Hawking, der døde i sidste uge, 76 år gammel, levede på grund af sin ALS-diagnose, som om hver dag var hans sidste. Men mens hans levede, lavede han arbejde, der vil give ham evigt liv (i overført forstand). Det viser sig, at han kort før sin død nåede at færdiggøre en sidste teori, ‘A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation’, som forklarer, hvordan menneskeheden måske ville kunne paralleluniverser. Mange undte ham en Nobelpris i fysik; men så stik ham da en posthumt – det er alligevel, som om han stadig er her. (Billedet er fra en strand 65 kilometer fra Bhubaneswar i den indiske delstat Odisha. Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Asit Kumar
TOPSHOT - Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik gives final touches to a sculpture in honour of British physicist and award-winning author Stephen Hawking at Puri beach, some 65 kms. from Bhubaneswar on March 14, 2018. Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, died on March 14th aged 76. Propelled to superstardom by his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time", which became an unlikely worldwide bestseller, Hawking dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe. / AFP PHOTO / ASIT KUMAR