Stephen Hawking makes his doctoral thesis available online

Stephen Hawking makes his doctoral thesis available online

Needless to say, it’s not light reading. Hawking used the expansion of the universe to challenge an existing gravitational theory (there’s no way galaxies could form as a result of early perturbations, he argued) and provide a model of gravitational radiation and expansion that shows space-time singularities are “inevitable.” Whether or not you take a …