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Professor Hawking's latest book, 'A Briefer History of Time' released.
From the book's blurb:
"Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the Universe. but it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts.
"This is the origin of and the reason for A Briefer History of Time: its author's wish to make its content accessible to readers - as well as to bring it up to date with the latest scientific observations and findings."
The book has been reviewed by The Guardian and they published an interview with Stephen, link to article.
IMPORTANT NOTE
It has come to
our attention that the book "The Theory of Everything: The
Origin and Fate of the Universe" has been published. Professor
Hawking would like to make it clear that he has not
endorsed this book. The text was written by him many years
ago, however the material has already
been published in books such as 'A Brief History of Time'. A
complaint was made to the Federal Trade Commission in the US
in the hope that they would prevent the publication. We
would urge you not to purchase this book in the belief that
Professor Hawking was involved in its creation.
| November 2005 | Professor Hawking visited the USA for 2 weeks, he gave public lectures in San Jose and Oakland. A third lecture in Seattle had to be done by webcast after we were unable to make the trip to Seattle in time. Professor Hawking also spoke to Intel employees as thanks for their hard work on designing his custom computer. We also took part in the Cambridge in American Cambridge 800 Campaign. |
| October 2005 | Professor Hawking is travelling to Germany to speak to Freie Universität Berlin before travelling on to Frankfurt for the Book Fair. |
| March 2005 | Professor Hawking travelled to Spain as the guest of the Prince of Asturias to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Prince of Asturias awards. |
| Jan 2005 | Professor Hawking spent a month in California, visiting Caltech and UCSB. While in Santa Barbara he introduced his friend, and recent Nobel prize winner, Professor David Gross for his talk at the Lobero Theater. Professor Hawking was also invited to Washington by the Smithsoian Institution, where they awarded him the Smithson Bicentennial Medal. See Professor Jim Hartle's preceding talk here. |
| December 2004 | Professor Hawking attended the 2004 British Comedy Awards, and persented an award to Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. |
| July 2004 | At the GR17 conference in Dublin, Professor Hawking gave a controversial lecture on his new calculations regarding Black Hole Information Loss.
Press Release: One of the most intriguing problems in theoretical physics has been solved by Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge. He presented his findings at GR17, an International Conference in Dublin, on Wednesday 21 July. Black holes are often thought of as being regions of space into which matter and energy can fall, and disappear forever. In 1974, Stephen Hawking discovered that when one fused the ideas of quantum mechanics with those of general relativity, it was no longer true that black holes were completely black. They emitted radiation, now known as Hawking radiation. This radiation carried energy away from the black hole which meant that the black hole would gradually shrink and then disappear in a final explosive outburst. These ideas led to a fundamental difficulty, the information paradox, the resolution of which is to be revealed in Dublin. The basic problem is that black holes, as well as eating matter, also appear to eat quantum mechanical information. Yet the most fundamental laws of physics demand that this information be preserved as the universe evolves. The information paradox was explored and formalised by Hawking in 1975. Since then, many have tried to find a solution. Whilst most physicists think that there must be a resolution of the paradox, nobody has really produced a believable explanation. In fact, seven years ago the issue prompted Hawking, together with Kip Thorne of Caltech, to make a wager against John Preskill also of Caltech, that the information swallowed by black holes could never be recovered. On Wednesday, Hawking conceded that he has lost the bet. The way his new calculations work is to show that the event horizon, which is the surface of the black hole, has quantum fluctuations in it. These are the same uncertainties in position that were made famous by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and are central to quantum mechanics. The fluctuations gradually allow all the information inside the black hole to leak out, thus allowing us to form a consistent picture. The information paradox is now unravelled. A complete description of this work will be published in professional journals and on the web in due course. |
| November 2003 | Intel donated a new computer to Professor Hawking, custom designed for his wheelchair. The computer is a modified laptop running on a 1.5 GHz Pentium M chip, with Centrino technology. |
| September 2003 | Professor Hawking spent 7 weeks in the USA, visiting Caltech in LA, and attending the KITP conference at UCSB in Santa Barbara. He also spent a few days in Cleveland to take part in the CERCA conference at CWRU, and gave a public lecture in Severance Hall. |
| August 2003 | Professor Hawking attended the Nobel Symposium on String Theory and Cosmology, in Sigtuna, Sweden. |
| June 2003 | Professor Hawking made a surprise appearance on the 'Conan O'Brian Show' in America, along side Jim Carrey. A week later Jim dropped in to Cambridge to join him for dinner. It was a great evening, and we hope Jim's foot has recovered! |
| March 2003 | In late March Professor Hawking spent a week at the Cosmic Inflation conference at UC Davis in California. Details can be found here. |
| February 2003 | Professor Hawking spent a month attending the Holography conference at Texas A&M University. During that time he lectured in College Station, Galveston and the Woodlands. |
| January 2003 | This month Professor Hawking gave a lecture discussing the future of physics, for the Cambridge-MIT Institute. The lecture was transmitted live to MIT in America via the web. Read more about it here. |
| October 2002 | Professor Hawking travelled to Paris to give a lecture on Brane theory at the Evergreen Partners Annual Meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel. |
| September 2002 | Professor Hawking received a new computer system from Intel this month. This new converted laptop runs at over 1 GHz and has a significantly different appearence to his last system. This was also the last month for Neel Shearer as Professor Hawking's Graduate Assistant. He hands over the role to Tom Pelly. Bye Neel! |
| August 2002 | In order to take part in some of the satellite conferences of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Professor Hawking travelled to China. He attended String Theory sessions at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He presented public lectures in Hangzhou on the 15th, and in Beijing on the 18th. We also managed to fit some sightseeing, before returning to the UK! |
| July 2002 | Professor Hawking
gave a public lecture in Cambridge on the 20th of
July at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. It was
part of the centennial celebration of the birth of Paul
Dirac, a holder of the Lucasian Chair and a Nobel Prize
winner. The lectures
also marked the end of the Strings 2002 conference, which this year,
was hosted by DAMTP. In recognition of the Astronomer Royal's 60th Birthday, a conference was held in Cambridge in his honour. Stephen gave a public lecture as part of the celebrations for Sir Martin Rees on Friday 12th July. |
| June 2002 | On the 25th of June, Professor Hawking was invited to the Science Museum in London to be presented with the Aventis Book Prize, one of the UK's most prestigious non-fiction book prizes. It celebrates the very best in popular science writing, and Professor Hawking won for his new book, 'The Universe in a Nutshell'. Professor Hawking said "I didn't expect to win this prize, after all, my previous book didn't win any prizes, despite selling millions. But I am very pleased to have had better luck this time. Science writing really can have an impact on how we live. Wherever I go all around the world, people want to know more. This has helped raise the profile of science." The BBC were there to report the event. |
| April 2002 | One of the last things we did in the US, was to give a lecture at the Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon on Friday 26th April. It was organized by The Institute for Science Engineering and Public Policy, and I have to say, it was a great success, with a complete sell out, which in the Keller is over 2800 people! You can have a look at the poster. |
| March 2002 | While in Santa Barbara, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Professor Hawking gave a
technical lecture, called 'Why does Inflation Start at the top of Hill?'. The ITP put the slides and audio
online. Professor Hawking gave a lecture at Caltech University in Pasadena, California on the evening of the 15th March. You can find out more on the Caltech website. |
| January 2002 | The new edition of
the award winning web magazine, +Plus is
out. It is a special edtition to celebrate
Stephens 60th Birthday and the conference that accompanied
it. Click the link above to see some photos and the lectures
of the Friday lecture series. A conference to celebrate Professor Hawking's 60th Birthday and the advances of the field in the last 40 years was attended by over 200 Physicists. On Friday 11th January there was a day of public lectures. Professor Hawking's talk was webcast by the BBC. |
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