Ten days before his death, celebrated theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking submitted his final research paper to the Journal of High-Energy Physics.

1. Stephen Hawking’s
Cosmic Paradox
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2. Ten days before his death, celebrated theoretical physicist and
cosmologist Stephen Hawking submitted his final research paper
to the Journal of High-Energy Physics.
Stephen Hawking’s
Cosmic Paradox
The Beginnings
of the Universe
Working with US physicist James
Hartle in the 1980s, Hawking
developed a new theory on the
beginning of our universe. It
solved a difficulty with Einstein’s
theory, which indicated that
our universe began around 14
billion years ago but provided no
explanation as to how it started.
Hawking and Hartle devised the
theory of quantum mechanics
to explain how the Universe
started from nothingness.
Though their theory tied up one
loose end, it created another: the
concept of multiverses.

3. Researchers hope that insight provided by
Hawking in his final days might help progress
the study of microwave radiation left over
from the Big Bang, and ultimately enable us
to detect the presence of other universes.
According to the Hartle-Hawking theory,
there could be multiple universes, each
like our own, but with subtle differences.
Hawking’s final paper revisited these
ideas, developing a more complex theory
about the creation of the Universe. His
new paper looks at where our laws of
physics come from, how they arose, and
whether they are unique.
Researchers hope that insight provided
by Hawking in his final days might help
progress the study of microwave radiation
left over from the Big Bang, and ultimately
enable us to detect the presence of other
universes. Whether this will facilitate
travel between universes in the future,
however, is a different matter entirely.

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