{"id":189454,"date":"2024-05-15T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-universe-is-a-hologram-stephen-hawkings-closest-collaborator-explains-his-final-theory"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:28:21","slug":"the-universe-is-a-hologram-stephen-hawkings-closest-collaborator-explains-his-final-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-universe-is-a-hologram-stephen-hawkings-closest-collaborator-explains-his-final-theory","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe universe is a hologram,\u201d Stephen Hawking\u2019s closest collaborator explains his final theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-is-a-hologram-stephen-hawkings-closest-collaborator-explains-his-final-theory3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close friend and coworker Thomas Hertog explores the groundbreaking physicist\u2019s theories regarding the Big Bang\u2019s beginnings on this, the sixth anniversary of Stephen Hawking\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<p>I was appointed as Stephen Hawking\u2019s PhD student in 1998 \u201cto work on a quantum theory of the Big Bang.\u201d Over the course of about 20 years, what began as a doctoral project evolved into a close collaboration that came to an end only six years ago, on March 14, 2018, when he passed away.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery that drove our investigation during this time was how the Big Bang could have produced conditions that were so ideal for life. How should we interpret this enigmatic display of intent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close friend and coworker Thomas Hertog explores the groundbreaking physicist\u2019s theories regarding the Big Bang\u2019s beginnings on this, the sixth anniversary of Stephen Hawking\u2019s passing. I was appointed as Stephen Hawking\u2019s PhD student in 1998 \u201cto work on a quantum theory of the Big Bang.\u201d Over the course of about 20 years, what began as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1923,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-holograms","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189454","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}