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hawking

[haw-king] / ˈhɔ kɪŋ /


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Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Hawking also showed that black holes are not completely silent.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

His case is in many ways similar to others with severe neuromotor disorders, such as British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who was confined to a wheelchair and could only communicate through a voice synthesiser.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Other dead celebrity re-creations, including Kobe Bryant, Stephen Hawking and President Kennedy, created on Sora have been cross-posted on social media websites, garnering millions of views.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

This means, as Stephen Hawking has observed with a touch of understandable excitement, that one cannot "predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!"

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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