{"id":78376,"date":"2018-05-06T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-to-understand-stephen-hawkings-final-paper-or-at-least-try"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:09:18","slug":"how-to-understand-stephen-hawkings-final-paper-or-at-least-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-to-understand-stephen-hawkings-final-paper-or-at-least-try","title":{"rendered":"How to understand Stephen Hawking\u2019s final paper. Or at least try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kYAdwS5MFjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It all started with a Big Bang. But then what?<\/p>\n<p>Renowned theoretical astrophysicist Stephen Hawking had been trying to answer that and other questions about the universe right up until his death. But in his final paper, submitted just eight days before he died on March 14, at age 76, Hawking and co-author Thomas Hertog proposed that the universe is actually simpler than what\u2019s been suggested in other theories.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they say, the massive explosion known as the Big Bang did create multiple universes \u2014 but not as many as the current theory predicts. The number of multiverses is finite, not infinite, according to them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/stephen-hawking-final-paper-1.4648542\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/stephen-hawking-final-paper-1.4648542<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with a Big Bang. But then what? Renowned theoretical astrophysicist Stephen Hawking had been trying to answer that and other questions about the universe right up until his death. But in his final paper, submitted just eight days before he died on March 14, at age 76, Hawking and co-author Thomas Hertog [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78376","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=78376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78515,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78376\/revisions\/78515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}