"We are not down to a single, unique universe, but our findings imply a significant reduction of the multiverse, to a much smaller range of possible universes," said Hawking. This makes the theory more predictive and testable. Hertog now plans to study the implications of the new t...
Hawking took the reader on a journey from the earliest beliefs about the creation of the universe to the cutting edge of modern cosmology, which includes quantum physics, string theory, multi-verses, and M-theory. Together, these theories are bringing us close to what scientists call “The ...
The theory of eternal inflation that Hawking and Hertog put forward is based on string theory: a branch of theoretical physics that attempts to reconcile gravity and general relativity with quantum physics, in part by describing the fundamental constituents of the universe as tiny vibrating strings. ...
Stephen Hawking’s final research, developed with Thomas Hertog and published in 2018, challenges the conventionalBig Bangtheory by suggesting the universe is finite and simpler than previously thought. Based on string theory and holography, their work argues against the idea of an eternally inflating...
The multiverse challenges science as we know it, and Hawking wasn't pleased with it. But our journey to the edges of time has since reshaped our vision of the cosmos, and ourselves. When I first met Stephen Hawking in his Cambridge office in 1998 he had mixed feelings about the multivers...