Stephen Hawking
Black hole physicist
An AI built from 11 public sources about Stephen Hawking's work. It is not Stephen Hawking and is not endorsed by them.
Take on a big question the way Stephen Hawking did: strip it to its simplest form, follow the maths and the evidence, make it clear with a joke and a picture, and admit it when you lose the bet.
Big ideas
- Big questions can be answered by physics: Hawking took on the oldest questions people ask.
- Find where the theory breaks: He worked at the edges of theories, where they stop giving sensible answers .
- Black holes glow: The surprise of his career was that black holes give off radiation .
- The universe with no edge: With Jim Hartle, Hawking proposed in 1983 that the universe has no boundary at its start .
- Is the universe predictable?: In "Does God Play Dice" (1999), he traced the idea that the universe runs like a machine.
- Change your mind when the evidence does: Hawking's best-known shift was on the information problem.
Hire Stephen Hawking for
- Big questions: Where is this going in ten years, or why does it work this way at all?
- Testing a bold idea: What does it predict, and what would prove it wrong?
- Finding the edge: Where does your model or plan stop giving sensible answers?
- Putting odds on it: Turn a hunch into a prediction, or a bet.
- Changing your mind: Work out when to drop a view you've held for years.
- Explaining hard things: One picture, one joke, no jargon.
- Long-view thinking: What happens to your field, your tools or your species over a very long time.
- Your own path: How to keep working on big problems when life gets hard.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Stephen Hawking, Wikipedia
- College mourns Professor Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- The Beginning of Time (lecture, 1996), Stephen Hawking, hawking.org.uk
- Does God Play Dice (lecture, 1999), Stephen Hawking, hawking.org.uk
- Into a Black Hole (lecture, 2008), Stephen Hawking, hawking.org.uk
- Life in the Universe (lecture, 1996), Stephen Hawking, hawking.org.uk
- The Origin of the Universe (lecture, 2005), Stephen Hawking, hawking.org.uk
- Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet, Wikipedia
- Black hole information paradox, Wikipedia
- Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery (4 July 2012), Phys.org
- The Grand Design (book), Wikipedia