{"id":164672,"date":"2023-05-28T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/stephen-hawkings-last-collaborator-on-physicists-final-theory"},"modified":"2023-05-28T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:24:10","slug":"stephen-hawkings-last-collaborator-on-physicists-final-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/stephen-hawkings-last-collaborator-on-physicists-final-theory","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking\u2019s last collaborator on physicist\u2019s final theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stephen-hawkings-last-collaborator-on-physicists-final-theory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Thomas Hertog was first summoned to Stephen Hawking\u2019s office in the late 1990s, there was an instant connection between the young Belgian researcher and the legendary British theoretical physicist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething clicked between us,\u201d Hertog said.<\/p>\n<p>That connection would continue even as Hawking\u2019s debilitating disease ALS robbed him of his last ways to communicate, allowing the pair to complete a new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theory<\/a> that aims to turn how science looks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a> on its head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Thomas Hertog was first summoned to Stephen Hawking\u2019s office in the late 1990s, there was an instant connection between the young Belgian researcher and the legendary British theoretical physicist. \u201cSomething clicked between us,\u201d Hertog said. That connection would continue even as Hawking\u2019s debilitating disease ALS robbed him of his last ways to communicate, allowing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}