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Lecture by Stephen Hawking at Geneva University

March 31, 2013
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It’s been a while since we’ve seen a video with Stephen Hawking so let’s check out one of his public lectures delivered in 2009 at Geneva University. In this lecture Hawking discusses the problems of cosmology and his own work. Regarded as one of the great physicists of modern times, Hawking’s work in search for the theoretical framework for a Unified Field Theory has lead him to some truly remarkable conclusions in his career...

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Stephen Hawking and the Theory of Everything

May 12, 2012
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Stephen Hawking and the Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist who worked for 30 years as a Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His research focused mostly on theoretical cosmology, especially black holes. Besides that Stephen Hawking has become widely known for his popular science books like “The Grand Design” and TV projects like “The Brave New World With Stephen Hawking“.   Today we’re going to take a look at another great documentary featuring Stephen...

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The Brave New World With Stephen Hawking

March 15, 2012
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The Brave New World With Stephen Hawking

Remember those sci-fi movies back in the 80s and 90s where they showed futuristic stuff like modern mobile phones, wireless Internet accessible everywhere, huge LCD or holographic screens, flying cars and so on? Well I don’t know how about you but I really do and I still laugh at those hilarious movies, where they show the “far future” of the year 2000 being super futuristic, even though it’s only 20 or 10 years in the future. But the...

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The Dreams that Stuff is Made Of

March 2, 2012
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The Dreams that Stuff is Made Of

Have you ever wondered how the original scientific papers of the greatest physicists of the 20th century looked like? If your answer is yes than I have a book just for you – “The Dreams that Stuff is Made Of” edited by Stephen Hawking. The best thing about this book that it is basically a collection of original revolutionary scientific papers on quantum mechanics by scientists like Paul Dirac, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schroedinger and others....

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The Grand Design

March 1, 2012
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The Grand Design

So today let’s check out the newest best-sellers by Stephen Hawking. As I’m sure you all know Hawking is one of the best known living science celebrities. There is a variety of opinions about scientific achievements of Stephen Hawking and whether he’s on par with the best physicists of the 20th century, however one thing is certain – he knows how to explain science. And that’s what he does in his popular science books....

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