Echoes of memories of Stephen Hawking

March 14, 2018

Echoes of memories of Stephen Hawking

An illustration of Hawking, far from crowd, gazing at stars
Image courtesy: NASA

I may have been reluctant to write any post on my site since the upcoming of March because of my going on exams but something had pricked me so much today that I can't really resist my own feelings and condolence towards the death of great physicist, Stephen Hawking. He was great man by intellengence and intelluctual. And I am not here to load the web with tonnes of news about his death but here, I am going to share my own feelings about him and what made him the greatest intellectual man of his times and what were his efforts to unify General Theory of Relativity with Quantum Theory?

Abstract
If you've clicked on this post, then sure, you might have known with this name, Dr Stephen Hawking. And you had known about his death on Pi day ( which is however for me is 14/3 but some other people out there write like this: 3/14, which is somehow connecting to 'pi' up to 2 places of the decimal). Some of you have also known that today only Einstein's B'day was also there (Actually, it doesn't matter to me whose B'day is on which date, even to my ideal person). You may have concluded that these both geniuses, one who came in this world on this day and another who has gone from this world. Isn't this coincidence?
Whatever you think, but this guy did not believe in coincidences and determinism. If you just look at his biography, you'll notice something very extraordinary happened in his life. Let's see further about his further life experiences through a short story......

Stephen Hawking was born in 1942 where he started his life as charming schooling with nothing else but a sense of curiosity of wondering over the cosmos. His curiosity towards physics and cosmology was surprising. Later, as a cheerful college boy, he enrolled at Oxford University where he was nicknamed as 'Einstein'. Being not so good at academics, he was lazy and somehow difficult to understand. His googled and a cheerful grin on his face was so magical that no one can be upset with him for too long (Actually, it's my thought).
During his undergraduate years in Cambridge, being as a sensitive boy, he also fell in love with Jane Hawking (who was her first wife). His story, till now, was very smooth and he never has imagined that under first graduation year, he had faced difficulties in Mathematics to understand General Relativity. Later, a huge eclipse surrounded the life of Hawking when he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease. He, at first, felt depressed because doctors have predicted his life to be 2 years more but his full faith and determination to live and do some great in the field of cosmology inspired him away and he worked so hard.
At that time, physicists' society was divided into thoughts of origin of our universe. In further years, he came out to be a Big Bang Theorist. Being contemporaries with many great physicists, he started his main works about Hawking as thinking of black holes with the applications to the law of thermodynamics, especially the second law that is all about entropy (the measure of disorder or chaos). The moment he started out his research was a difficult time for him when his personal life has moved a bit further. He was not only a PhD student but a husband and a father too. Now, in his PhD thesis, he extended out the ideas regarding singularities and he used Roger Penrose Theorem to explain singularities. Later when he got his PhD, he started out his work on his life's greatest achievement, Hawking Radiation.
In his book, The Theory of Everything, I read that the idea of "Black holes ain't so black", which is a truly fantastic chapter to read, in that chapter he thoroughly explained that how did he ponder over black holes' reality and how did he actually imply his equation and led to a statement, Black Holes ain't so black?
(Wanna read that, go to this link) The greatest work ever, his creation, The Brief History of Time, truly explores the path to modern physics and sets you in middle of giants of modern physics and would lead you to ponder over the greatest mystery of universe and working of the cosmos. It was however introduced by Carl Sagan, which is truly magically introduced. (If you wanna read that, follow the link).
He led a satisfactory life with a journey to deep inside the galaxies and to the black holes and even to the big bang by his extraordinary brain. He died today which is Pi day and even if people think that he was genius so he was destined to be die on some special event like today only, Einstein had taken birth and came on this day but i tell you he didn't believe in coincedences. He niether believed in god nor souls but he believed in truth and science, which is one and only way to become divine by brain.

"I really don't know much about his life but one thing I do know is that he was a follower of truth and curious about things we often ignore them as simple. Our curiosity defines us and he is a man of example, he is now no more but his endless memories and contribution to the discovery of Black Holes' mystery.