Hawking’s inspirational stories, Hawking’s inspirational sentences

Who is Hawking? He is a brain, a myth, one of the most outstanding theoretical physicists of our time, a giant in the name of science... In addition, he is a person in a wheelchair. A warrior who challenges destiny.

Genius who grew up among books

In the cold wind, Frank held the test tube in his left hand and walked quickly to the window to check it again. It was so cold that he pressed all four corners tightly. Outside the window, one could vaguely feel the breath of war not far away. Under the terror of death, a baby's cry broke the cold and solidified air.

This day is January 8, 1942. Stephen William Hawking was born in this warm family. At that time, the 61-year-old Einstein was completing a series of scientific papers such as "Science and Religion" and was preparing to go to the Soviet Union to participate in activities organized by Jewish organizations. Perhaps because he was too busy, the scientific giant did not foresee the birth of his successor. Little Hawking brought a lot of joy to Frank and Isabel, but he also brought a lot of troubles. Taking care of children is a big challenge for them, and it is much more complicated than writing medical theory. Although Isabel has extensive research in many fields, in order to be an excellent mother, she still has to fill in a lot of infant care knowledge.

Time passed by, and little Hawking grew up day by day, and occasionally made a few faces to make his parents happy.

A few years later, in a blink of an eye, little Hawking was able to walk and talk. But the strange thing is that he was different from other children. He often stared at the books on the bookshelf in silence for a while. Playing with toys is more engaging. So his parents decided to provide him with the best learning conditions and hoped that their son could surpass themselves. It is the instinct of parents to hope that their children will become successful and that their daughters will become phoenixes. This is not only true in China, but also in all countries.

Later, Hawking had a younger sister, and his parents adopted a younger brother. From then on, Hawking was no longer alone. He was more willing to take care of his younger brothers and sisters than playing with his companions. Soon Hawking reached the age of study. His IQ was the same as that of the children in his class, but he had many more books in his room than other children. He excelled in his studies and went straight up, and finally entered Oxford University as he wished. This is the result that his parents most wanted to see, and it is also the result of Hawking's years of hard work. After entering college, Hawking's parents would discuss his employment issues from time to time every time they chatted.

Hawking himself does not care about this. He does not think much about the future. Like most students of the same age, he is in a period of confusion and does not spend too much time thinking about his future. In the future, I won’t spend much time on academic papers. Of course, he often plays with his classmates, but he doesn't like sports and is not good at various sports activities. His hands and feet are far less flexible than his brain. Hawking's handwriting has been difficult to read since he was a child, but he just couldn't control it. Once or twice he couldn't get up after falling down at school - this was a sign that an ominous premonition enveloped him. However, he still spent his 21st birthday happily.

The disease fell from the sky

Since childhood, sports have not been Hawking’s strong point, and he is not good at almost all ball games. In his third year at Oxford, Hawking noticed that he had become more clumsy, falling down once or twice for no apparent reason. Once, he suddenly fell down the stairs for unknown reasons, fell into a coma and almost died.

However, it was not until 1962, when Hawking was a graduate student at Cambridge, that his mother noticed her son's abnormal condition. Hawking, who had just celebrated his 21st birthday, stayed in the hospital for two weeks. After various examinations, he was diagnosed with "Lou Gehrig's disease," which is motor nerve cell atrophy. His limbs will become increasingly inoperable, then his body and internal organs, until his heart and lungs, and finally sudden death. He will have up to two years left, and he won't even be able to wait until the day he gets his bachelor's degree.

At first, the disease worsened very quickly. The blow to Hawking was understandable. He almost gave up all study and research, and began to face serious challenges in his life. It was even more like he was about to... The blooming flowers suddenly suffered a severe blow.

The condition is getting worse day by day. By 1970, Hawking, whose academic reputation was growing, could no longer move on his own. Reluctantly, he began to use a wheelchair. He has never been able to leave it since.

Even in a wheelchair, Hawking did not escape fate.

In March 1991, on the way back to his apartment in Berlin in a wheelchair, Hawking was hit by a car. His left arm was fractured, his head was cut, and he needed 13 stitches. However, the strong Hawking returned to the office after only 48 hours of correction. Put in the work. Misfortunes never come singly. When Hawking and his friends went to his country house, his wheelchair tipped backwards due to a sharp turn uphill, and Hawking was knocked over in the bushes.

In 1984, it was quite difficult for him to speak. He began to pronounce words unclearly and it took a long time to speak a few words. In 1985, Hawking suffered from pneumonia again, and his trachea was cut during treatment. From then on, he could no longer speak.

Later, people installed a computer and speech synthesizer in his wheelchair. He used his only two intact fingers to type the words he wanted to say on the keyboard, formed the corresponding sentences, and then produced the sounds through the speech synthesizer. He uses this method to conduct academic exchanges and make academic reports.

In the face of challenges, fate seems to have retreated. Two and a half years have passed, and several more two and a half years have passed, but he is still living strong.

No matter how bad the fate is, people should always do something. Where there is life, there is hope.

His body changed a lot and he soon became unable to move. Just as the doctor expected, he had no intention of studying academic issues until a girl appeared and changed his life. The trajectory gave him the courage to survive.

The person who brought Hawking his first miracle was Jane Wilder, his girlfriend. In the summer of 1962, Jane met Hawking, who walked clumsily and staggered, through a friend, and they met several more times by chance. As a result, they fell in love, but with a touch of bitterness. The power of love is irresistible. On July 14 of the following year, Jane and Hawking got married. Their view of love did not give up due to the emergence of the disease, but became more determined. The two of them faced the disease side by side, breaking the myth that they could only live for 2 and a half years.

Hawking returned to academic studies and successfully obtained his Ph.D. Hawking had a unique sense of humor about women. When people asked him what he was pursuing, he answered first that he wanted to know what was in the black hole, and secondly that he wanted to know what a woman was.

Many years later, Jane wrote in her memoir "Music Moving Stars": "I love him very much. Nothing can stop me from marrying him. I am willing to cook, wash and shop for him. I have to clean up my housework and give up my previous lofty ambitions."

Hawking's body cannot move, and he has to go through several complicated conversion processes to say a word, but even this cannot change his academic research. Successfully completed "A Brief History of Time". This is the greatest work in physics that reveals the mysteries of the universe after Einstein's "Theory of Relativity". He is one of the most successful disabled people and the best warrior who can create miracles and challenge destiny. He interprets the concept of time. And someone who breaks time. People who were "sentenced" to death in their 20s are still alive today. In 2012, he was 70 years old.

The physical theory of the “scientific giant”

(1) Black holes are not black

Hawking’s research object is the universe, but he has never been interested in observational astronomy. It has only been observed with a telescope a few times. Compared with traditional scientific methods such as experiments and observations, Hawking's method relies on intuition.

The great achievement of "black holes are not black" came from a flash of thought. One night in November 1970, Hawking began to think about black holes as he slowly climbed into bed. He suddenly realized that a black hole should have a temperature, so that it would emit radiation. In other words, black holes are not really that black.

This flash idea formed a complete theory after three years of thinking. In November 1973, Hawking officially announced to the world that black holes continuously radiate X-rays, gamma rays, etc. This is the famous "Hawking radiation". Before this, it was thought that black holes could only swallow.

From the singularity of the Big Bang to the radiation mechanism of black holes, Hawking has made outstanding contributions to the development of quantum cosmology. Hawking won the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics.

(2) The latest progress in quantum mechanics

Hawking hopes to unravel the mystery of the birth of the universe. In the 1970s, Hawking applied quantum mechanics to explain the phenomenon of black holes, but Over the next 30 years, it has become more difficult to explain the entire universe using quantum mechanics.

Hawking wanted to find a theory that could perfectly explain the phenomena of the entire universe to explain the universe that was born 13.7 billion years ago. However, many years have passed, and even though he is infinitely close, he still has not reached a conclusion. According to his quantum mechanics theory, the birth of the universe was caused by the Big Bang, which was the product of the explosion of compressed infinitesimal matter with super gravity (which can also be understood as infinite density). The theoretical category of quantum mechanics cannot explain how this process occurs? Why is this happening? Hawking said, "There must be a theory that can describe small-scale gravity." The latest scientific breakthrough is the superstring theory, referred to as "string theory", which Hawking's colleague Michael Green of Queen Mary College of London participated in the construction of. This theory points out that all particles and natural forces are actually oscillating. The tiny string-like objects in the universe have solved the problem of gravity that Hawking has been trying to solve. This theory must be based on the fact that the universe has 9, 10 or even more than 11 dimensions, and the three-dimensional world we live in may only be the real universe. one of the membranes. Currently, a large number of scientists from all over the world are conducting relevant experiments in space and on the earth to prove string theory and experimentally prove to support Hawking's black hole theory and quantum theory.

(3) Time Machine Theory

After admitting the existence of aliens, the famous British physicist Stephen William Hawking made another surprising statement: He claimed to have brought humans with him A time machine that flies into the future is theoretically possible, and the required conditions include a wormhole in space or a spacecraft traveling at speeds close to the speed of light. However, Hawking also warned not to take a time machine to go back and look at history, because "only crazy scientists would want to go back in time and 'reverse cause and effect.'"

According to British media reports, physicist Hawking In a recent documentary about the universe, it was mentioned that humans can actually build spaceships that approach the speed of light and can enter the future.

Hawking even said that he was worried that others would regard him as a "weirdo", so he did not dare to talk nonsense and did not want to talk more about time machines. He did not dare to discuss it openly until he watched the documentary. .

(4) There are gaps in time

As for the key point of the time machine, Hawking emphasized that it is the so-called "4-dimensional space", which scientists named "wormholes". Hawking emphasized that "wormholes" are all around us, but they are so small that they are difficult to see with the naked eye. They exist in the cracks in space and time. He pointed out that nothing in the universe is flat or solid. If you look closely, you will find that small holes or wrinkles will appear in all objects. This is a basic physical law, and it applies to time. Time also has tiny cracks, wrinkles and gaps. Spaces that are smaller than molecules and atoms are named "quantum foam", and "wormholes" exist in them.

(5) Return to the "distant past"

The ultra-thin tunnels or shortcuts that scientists attempt to travel through space and time are constantly being formed, disappeared or transformed in the quantum world. , they connect two different spaces and times. Some scientists believe that one day they may be able to seize a "wormhole" and enlarge it infinitely so that humans and even spacecraft can travel through it. In addition, with sufficient power and complete technology, scientists may also be able to build a huge "wormhole".

Hawking pointed out that in theory, time tunnels or "wormholes" can not only take humans to other planets, but if the two ends of the wormhole are at the same location and are separated by time rather than distance, then a spacecraft can Fly in and out, still close to the Earth, but into the so-called "distant past." Because in 4-dimensional space, 10 minutes may be n hours.

(6) Spaceships can go to the "future"

Hawking said that if scientists can build a spacecraft with a speed close to the speed of light, then the spacecraft will inevitably reach the maximum speed limit because it cannot violate the speed of light. The law causes time in the cabin to slow down, so flying for one week is equivalent to 100 years on the ground, which is equivalent to flying into the future.

Hawking gave the example of artificial satellites. When the satellite is in orbit, the time on the satellite is slightly faster than the time on the ground because it is less affected by the earth's gravity. From this, Hawking envisioned a large, extremely fast spacecraft that could accelerate to 97,000 kilometers per hour in one second and 99.99% of the speed of light in six years, 2,000 times faster than Apollo 10, the fastest spacecraft in history. The passengers on the ship are flying into the future in disguise, making a veritable time trip.

Writing science fiction at the forefront of science

Hawking, an outstanding contemporary physicist, is not only at the forefront of scientific research, but also has written many fascinating popular science books. .

In the book "A Brief History of Time", Hawking is obsessed with the grand unified theory, which is Einstein's unfinished dream. Hawking admitted in the book that it is impossible to use a single beautiful formula to describe and predict everything in the universe, because the uncertainty principle of quantum theory determines that the universe is a unity of uncertainty and certainty. Hawking used a map model to illustrate that the diversity of the universe may require a set of theories to describe it.

"The Nature of Space and Time" was expressed in a complete mathematical form 80 years ago with the general theory of relativity, and the basic principles of quantum theory also appeared 70 years ago. However, these two are the most accurate in the entire physics. , can the most successful theory be unified in quantum gravity alone? Two of the world's most famous physicists are engaged in an extreme and extreme debate on this issue. This book is based on six lectures and the final debate given by Hawking and Penrose at Cambridge University.

"The Charm of the Future" begins with Hawking's prediction of the future of the universe in the next billion years, and ends with Don Cubitt's understanding of the final trial. It introduces the development of prophecy and how we predict the future today. .

The book "The Universe in a Nutshell" is Hawking's most important work after "A Brief History of Time". In this book, Hawking once again takes us to the forefront of theoretical physics. In Hawking's world, truth and fantasy are sometimes just a thin line apart. Hawking's explanations in popular language prompt us to fully imagine the universe, and with his unique enthusiasm, he invites us to embark on an extraordinary journey through time and space.

Hawking is one of the great men with international reputation in this century. He is the most important contemporary general relativity and cosmologist. He is known as the greatest living scientist and is also known as the "King of the Universe". Although he suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease (motor neuron atrophy) and was confined to a wheelchair for 40 years, he was physically and mentally disabled. He overcame his disability and became a supernova in the international physics community. He transcended theories such as relativity, quantum mechanics, and the Big Bang and entered the "geometric dance" that created the universe. His thoughts brilliantly traveled across the vastness of time and space and solved the mysteries of the universe. He endured pain that ordinary people could not bear, and also created miracles that ordinary people could not create. His love for life and enthusiasm for scientific research, as well as his tenacity and persistence, are all worth learning from.