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Stephen Hawking at the Science Museum in Jerusalem, December 2006. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Stephen Hawking - a trapped soul wandering the universe

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Over the years, we have covered this one of a kind man on the Scientist website, whose eightieth birthday the world celebrates with the help of a Google doodle. Although he has not been with us for three years, the idea of ​​a soul trapped in a limited body, wandering in the expanses of space is what gave him a unique status, and he used it, among other things, to promote scientific and rational thinking * The science site summarizes the eighty faces of Stephen Hawking
Photo: Hawking at Cambridge University. Lwp Kommunikáció / Flickr, CC BY-SA

The British Astronomer Royal, eulogized Hawking: "The concept of an imprisoned mind wandering in the universe captured people's imagination"

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Stephen Hawking moderated his statements regarding artificial intelligence

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Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones play the characters of Stephen and Jane Hawking. In the photo - the scene of the graduation ball of the university in Cambridge in the mid-sixties. Photo: PR

God as a supporting character in the movie "The Theory of Everything" - a kind of biography of Stephen Hawking

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The width of each letter is 10 microns, about a tenth of the width of a human hair. At a ceremony held at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology in Cambridge on January 8, Intel gave a unique birthday gift to Prof. Stephen Hawking, who is seventy years old. The gift is a 300mm piece of silicon commonly used to make Intel's chips, stamped with the greeting "Happy Stephen Hawking" hundreds of times. The greeting was "printed" using Intel's 32nm manufacturing technology. The writing was done using thin scale copper lines nano-millimeter, the type usually used to produce high-quality, energy-efficient chips, such as those used in the latest smartphones with Intel Inside technology. The width of each letter is 10 microns, about one-tenth the width of a human hair. "This is a very special gift for an extraordinary scientist and an extraordinary person ", said Prof. Martin Curley, Vice President at Intel and Director of Intel Laboratories in Europe, when submitting the award. "Prof. Hawking's scientific breakthroughs and his resilience are an inspiration to all of us." Prof. Stephen Hawking is the research director and founder of the Center for Theoretical Cosmology The centre's new supercomputer, COSMOS Mk IX, which is part of the UK DiRAC Facility, based on Intel technology, is designed to solve some of the most complex mathematical challenges facing cosmology researchers today. The computer will be used to examine the origin of the universe, analyze background radiation data cosmic data obtained from the European satellite "Planck", and to investigate the complexity of the origins of our universe with the help of lattice field theory simulations that simulate non-linear phenomena in the first fractions of a second of the universe. The supercomputer is expected to contribute to the answer to questions such as what happened in the first moments after the big bang, what were the ancient seeds that led to the formation of the galaxies, the stars and eventually, also humans. The COSMOS MK IX uses its 1,856 Intel Xeon E5 processor cores assisted by 31 Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors, which together reach a theoretical peak performance of approximately 75 trillion floating point operations per second (TFLOPS). "We have been in contact with Prof. Hawking for a long time," said Justin Ratner, Intel's Chief Technology Officer and CEO of Intel Laboratories worldwide. "We are very happy to continue to support the work of the Center for Theoretical Cosmology, and to work closely with Prof. Hawking in improving the personal communication system His". The piece of silicon was awarded to Prof. Hawking following the State of the Universe symposium held on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, and in recognition of his contribution to research in fundamental physics and cosmology. Intel broadcast the event live on the Internet. Intel also announced its sponsorship of the COSMO 2013 international conference on particle physics and cosmology To be held in Cambridge on September 6-2, 2013. Well-known lecturers are expected to take part in the event, including Prof. Hawking, Prof. Brian Cox and Prof. David Spergel, and all of them will give lectures at the event.

Intel presented Prof. Stephen Hawking with a greeting for his 71st birthday on a 300 mm piece of silicon

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Prof. Stephen Hawking in a plane that allows training in zero gravity conditions. Photo: NASA

The (elusive) theory of everything / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Malodino

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time travel. Illustration: shutterstock

Hawking: Time travel is possible but only into the future

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Stephen Hawking at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, December 2006. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Hawking: Aliens may exist

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Stephen Hawking is in serious condition in hospital

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Hawking will retire from the chair at Cambridge next year

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Summary of Hawking's flight in zero gravity

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Hawking took off today in zero gravity and landed safely

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For sale on ebay: a pair of zero gravity flight tickets with Hawking

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Why don't the aliens come?

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Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, the inventor of the time machine in "Back to the Future". PR photo

The complete guide for the time traveler

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A twist on the paradox of information disappearing inside black holes

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Next month, Hawking will fly in a plane that allows the experience of zero gravity for 25 seconds at a time

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Hawking: This year I will fly in a training plane in zero gravity and in 2009 I will fly into space

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What Hawking and Krutzen think about the ecological future of the Earth

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Stephen Hawking's lecture "The Origin of the Universe" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 14, 2006

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What is the muscular dystrophy ALS that Stephen Hawking has?

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Thousands of people came to the Hebrew University to hear Prof. Stephen Hawking's lecture on the origin of the universe

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The transcript of Prof. Stephen Hawking's lecture at the Hebrew University, December 2006

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Prof. Hagai Netzer: Israel wants to join one of the largest telescope projects in the world

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Hawking continues his visit to Israel

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