• Question: Did you study anything except space?

    Asked by anon-188273 to Stephen Hawking on 15 Nov 2018.
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      Stephen Hawking answered on 15 Nov 2018:

      Hi Minor,

      Most of my work wasn’t actually about space at all! The only way we could test my theories were using object like black holes that we can only find in space. No laboratory on Earth could make the gravity strong enough.

      I spent a lot of my later work with Quantum mechanics and trying to explain how it works with general-relativity. The problem at the moment is General-Relativity (the physics of gravity) doesn’t conform with Quantum Mechanics (physics of the really small). I spent a lot of time pushing the fundamental laws of physics to their limits and seeing where they break!

      Brilliant Question!

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