Reborn Tech Scholar

Chapter 401 Hawking Dies
Just entered March, when Huaxia college students had just returned to school to resume their studies, British Sky News and other media reported that Steve Hawking passed away at the age of 3!
As a famous British physicist and cosmologist, Stephen William Hawking enjoys a high reputation all over the world. As a shining star in the golden age of theoretical physics in the second half of the 20th century, Hawking is no better than physicists such as Witten. Poor, throughout the second half of the 20th century, the theoretical physicist Yang Lao's status can stabilize him, even if he did not win the Nobel Prize in Physics in his life, but this does not hinder his greatness.

His main research fields are cosmology and black holes. He proved the singularity theorem of general relativity and the black hole area theorem, and proposed the phenomenon of black hole evaporation and the Hawking universe model without boundaries. He unified the two basic theories of 20th century physics—— An important step has been made in the theory of relativity created by Einstein and the quantum mechanics created by Planck.

All over the world, Hawking has a high reputation, which can be said to be second only to Newton and Einstein among physicists. He has a special title in the world - "King of the Universe"!
The reason why he has such a high reputation is not because Hawking's academic achievements reached the heights of Newton and Einstein, nor does it mean that Hawking was the greatest physicist in the second half of the 20th century.It is because Hawking appeared as a popularizing physicist in the middle and late stages, and often appeared on TV programs to popularize physical knowledge in related fields, including relativity and black holes.Of course, it is also because he has struggled with the disease for half a century, which in itself is a kind of strong perseverance and a miracle of life.

We must know that less than 20% of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can survive for three years in clinical practice, but Hawking has been fighting with it for half a century.This spirit is worthy of admiration and admiration.

At least Qin Yuanqing couldn't imagine that if he was paralyzed in a wheelchair like this one day and couldn't move, would he not even have the courage to live.

On this day, when Qin Yuanqing saw Wei Teng, he saw that Wei Teng was not in good spirits, but Qin Yuanqing could also understand that the age difference between Wei Teng and Hawking was less than 10 years old, so it can be said that they belonged to the same age. The shining star of the golden age of half-leaf theoretical physics.Although the research fields of the two are not the same, they both have a common name - theoretical physicist!
Moreover, they all have a common regret, that is, they have not been able to win the Nobel Physicist so far.

Now that Hawking has passed away, one can imagine the complexity in Witten's heart.

"Stephen is a strong person. If I were him, maybe I would choose to commit suicide!" Witten is no longer an authoritative theoretical physicist at this time, but more like an ordinary old man, becoming nagging Nagging: "I haven't met him many times. I have always had a wish, which is to make a bet with him on whether string theory is accurate."

Hawking loses every bet, he is almost equivalent to Pele in football in the physics world!
Among the three most famous ones, one is about the discovery of the 'God particle', one is about the existence of black holes, and the other is about the existence of naked singularities.

In the three bets that caused a sensation in the academic world of physics, Hawking lost two, the 'God Particle' was discovered, and the naked singularity existed.

As for the existence of black holes, there is actually no consensus at present, and there are still various voices.

Since the birth of the Schwarzschild solution, scientists have believed that there is a special celestial body called a black hole in the universe through the study of Einstein's general theory of relativity.When a large star with a mass many times that of the sun is about to die, it will begin to collapse under its own gravity and eventually form a singularity, which is what we often call a black hole.The gravity of a black hole is so strong that not even light can escape.

However, the current scientific research results show that this may only be people's conjecture, and black holes may not actually exist.For example, a professor from the University of North Carolina in the United States proved this through mathematical calculations. According to her calculation results, it is impossible for a star to collapse into a singularity.If her claims are correct, then we may have to overthrow all previous theories and reconsider how the universe was born.

And this is not just a case, there are many research results that believe that it is impossible to form a black hole.This has also led many people in the academic community to question the theory of black holes and whether the theory of the Big Bang is true.

In China, most people think that black holes exist, and the theory of the big bang is correct. Many people even believe the statement given by scientists that the universe was born in a big bang 137 billion years ago, and the explosion occurred on a singularity ,

But in fact, I don’t know that whether it is the black hole or the Big Bang theory, it is actually a hypothesis put forward by physicists. By observing the movement of celestial bodies, a hypothesis is put forward to explain the present, in order to explain it in the most reasonable way. the observed universe.

With the current means of human beings, there is actually no way to prove the authenticity of these theories. It can only be said that they are more reasonable among many current theories, but these theories also have many problems that are difficult to explain.

Why Hawking did not win the Nobel Prize is also related to this.In a sense, this is the same as what Witten encountered with superstring theory.

"Time is really fast. Before I knew it, I was 67 years old, and one foot had already stepped into the coffin. I have clearly noticed that my thinking is getting slower and slower. Even before reviewing papers, I only needed to One hour, but now it takes two days or even three days." Wei Teng is an ordinary little old man at this time, and he is extremely sensitive to the passage of time.

"Sometimes even when I was sleeping, I would dream of my childhood and my student days. Sometimes, someone was calling my name vaguely, but I couldn't see anyone. Maybe God started calling me!" Wei Teng He laughed at himself and said, "Actually, I'm afraid of death. I haven't won the Nobel Prize in Physics yet, so I'm not willing to die like this."

"Qin, you are a genius, a super genius, your talent is amazing! You have already made amazing achievements at such a young age! From the perspective of someone who has experienced it, I actually want to persuade you to make more Spend too much time and energy on scientific research. One day you will be old, and you just want to concentrate on scientific research, and your energy, your thinking ability, and your body will not allow it!" Wei Teng said from the bottom of his heart .

Qin Yuanqing actually prefers academic research, and he is not interested in administration at all, but there is no way, the dean talked to him personally, Shuimu has grown to a very large size, and at a very critical time, Jin is ranked among the top ten in the world Famous schools, if they retreat, they will be in chaos, and they will miss development opportunities in vain.

But at present, Qin Yuanqing is the most suitable, he must have enough prestige, and he is a Shuimu person. He has been in Shuimu, which is enough to deter all ghosts and snakes.

It was exactly the same, after Qin Yuanqing struggled a bit, he agreed.

To be honest, I still have a lot of affection for Mizuki Qin Yuanqing. After all, Mizuki has developed so far with his hard work, and he also hopes that Mizuki can continue to set sail and continue to move towards the first place. He does not want Mizuki to be the new principal. Chaos became a mess.

Hawking's death became the biggest news in March. There are programs, newspapers, and forums all over the world that popularize Hawking's achievements and life growth trajectory to commemorate this great scientist.Well-known scholars have published articles to commemorate this giant of science.

Until the end of the month, the scientist's funeral was held in Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge University, and his ashes were placed in Westminster Abbey, London, next to Newton and Darwin, showing Britain's respect for the scientist. The respect of everyone, after all, Hawking is probably the greatest British scientist in the second half of the 20th century.

Hawking's funeral was also broadcast live. The actor Eddie Redmayne who played Hawking gave a eulogy, and famous scholars attended Hawking's funeral.

On the Internet around the world, netizens also mourned Hawking in their own ways.Hawking, as China is most familiar with overseas physicists, was once recognized by most Chinese people as a great physicist comparable to Einstein and Newton, so he is naturally different.On WeChat, Weibo, and forums, mourning was carried out one after another.Even in the circle of WeChat friends, Hawking is also crazily remembered.Of course, this crazy behavior of swiping the screen has also caused dissatisfaction among many people.

Qin Yuanqing vaguely understood why some people said that a person died three times.The first time is when the body dies, which is biological death.The second time is when people get the news of the death and attend the funeral of the deceased and remember the life of the deceased. This is the death of social relations.The third time is when the last person who remembers the dead forgets the dead, which is the real death.

Just like this, scholars are more pursuing the name, so that their name can be recorded in textbooks and history, so that people will remember him, and in this way, it is not considered a real death.

Qin Yuanqing did not attend Hawking's funeral, nor did he deliver any eulogy. After all, they were not scholars of the same era, nor did they meet each other, and they had never even met each other.If he mourned solemnly, it would appear hypocritical.

Qin Yuanqing didn't need to use this kind of behavior to expand his fame and influence.After all, based on his achievements in physics, his status in physics is as stable as Mount Tai and cannot be shaken. Even if he is placed in the ranking of physicists in the 20th century, his ranking is above Hawking, and he cannot compare with Einstein. Stan, but there is no problem at all with Yang Lao.

(End of this chapter)