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Stephen Hawking is backing a project to send tiny spacecraft to another star system within a generation. They would travel trillions of miles; far further than any previous craft.
Climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of the world, the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking has said.
2007-01-18
global warming climate change Stephen HawkingThe renowned astrophysicist said it was "perfectly rational" to assume intelligent life exists elsewhere. But he warned that aliens might simply raid Earth for resources, then move on.
2010-04-25
alien extraterrestrial life philosophy astronomy Stephen Hawking conquest Europa Mars"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes. "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
2010-09-02
God universe gravity physics nothingness astronomy cosmology philosophy Stephen Hawking religionIn a rare interview, Professor Stephen Hawking explains to artist and writer Matt Collings his theory on the complex behaviour of black holes, and whether he thinks equations can be considered beautiful.
2010-12-14
Stephen Hawking beauty mathematics physics black hole equation Occam's razor discovery sex scienceA belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
2011-05-15
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