Tag Archives: Stephen Hawking
25 years of Maldacena’s bridge
Twenty-five years go, in 1997, an Argentine physicist named Juan Martin Maldacena published what would become the most highly cited physics paper in history (more than 20,000 to date). In the paper, Maldacena described a ‘bridge’ between two theories that … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-de Sitter space, black hole information loss, conformal field theory, holographic principle, Jacob Bekenstein, Juan Maldacena, physical information, Stephen Hawking, string theory
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The journey of a crow and the story of a black hole
The Washington Post has a review, and introduction therewith, of a curious new book called Ka, authored by John Crowley (acclaimed author of Great Work of Time). It is narrated from the POV of a crow named Dar Oakley, who … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Starobinsky, black hole information paradox, black holes, Dar Oakley, Hawking radiation, John Crowley, Ka, no hair conjecture, Stephen Hawking, Yakov Zel'dovich
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ACAT in the wild
The software working behind the robotic voice of Stephen Hawking was released for public use on August 18 by Intel, the company that developed it. Although principally developed for Hawking, the ‘tool’ has since been made available to many other people … Continue reading
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Tagged Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit, Intel, motor neurone disease, Stephen Hawking
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Why you should care about the mass of the top quark
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters on July 17, 2014, a team of American researchers reported the most precisely measured value yet of the mass of the top quark, the heaviest fundamental particle. Its mass is so high that … Continue reading
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Tagged D0 experiment, Higgs boson, Higgs field, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, Stephen Hawking, top quark, Yukawa coupling
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