All of you know Stephen Hawking and his works. Lets see some strange facts about his personal life.
The post is a bit long, but I am sure you will enjoy it.
Stephen Hawking is a world renowned quantum physicist who was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942. This was the three-hundredth anniversary of the Italian Scientist, Galileo Galilei’s death.
At just two weeks old Stephen was almost killed when a neighbor' s home was destroyed during the war by a V2 rocket which damage the Hawking’s home while they were away.
As a youth he loved to create games with his friends. They would gather and play them on weekends and holidays at Stephen's home. Stephen would create many of the rules that were so complex that the games would take so much time, one turn could last an entire afternoon.
As Stephen began getting ready for college he began working in the fields of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. His father hoped he would become a doctor but Stephen had other ideas. By 1958 he and his friends created a computer called LUCE - the Logical Uniselector Computing Engine.
When Stephen attended Oxford on a scholarship he focused on mathematics and physics as he showed a strong interest in theories. He focused on the theory of relativity from Einstein and the study of cosmology, which deals with the bending of space and space as related to time.
1963 was a turning point for Stephen as on the first day of the year he met his future wife Jane Wilde and then soon began under going tests which diagnosed him with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was only given two years to live.
While working to receive his Ph.D. and make a name for himself at the school, Stephen proved himself able to handle great levels of theoretic equations in his head. He would speak with friends and eventually applied the theory of singularity to the entire universe as a result of these discussions. In 1965 he became a published author on the subject of singularities.
In 1965 Jane and Stephen were married. In December they traveled to Florida for a conference. Stephen's speech was difficult to understand and a friend who had come from Texas to attend the same conference agreed to speak for him. He presented that black holes had a center and black holes do not remain constant.
By 1970 he saw his second child Lucy born. While thinking about black holes he realized that if he focused his attention on the horizon surrounding the black hole instead of the singularities, which occurred inside the black hole, you should be able to find differences in the surface. This theory allowed for the identification of the first black hole to be defined as Cygnus X-1.
Most of his work was done while working with Roger Penrose, a mathematician who wrote the equations as Stephen communicated them. When the first issue of their book was published, it was already out of date and had to be revised immediately.
Stephen took this farther and applied this to the beginning of time. He believed that if taken back far enough the black hole would be small enough it could hold a single gram. As this grew and increased it became the universe. Small mini holes would have formed and would last forever.
His work has been used to try and prove God's creation of the world and although Stephen is not a religious man, his theories have been used by many religious organizations.
He communicates to the world through the use of special computers designed in California, which allow him to communicate using only two fingers as he has no motor control over his body and is unable to speak any longer.
His mind is still hard at work and is still working to define how the universe was created, what all a black hole can do, and where do things go once they enter the black hole.
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