Theoretical Physics Cosmology Rock’n Roll
Theoretical Physics Cosmology Rock’n Roll
Theoretical Physics Cosmology Rock’n Roll

Theoretical Physics, Cosmology, Rock'n Roll

Bono calls him 'the scientist of U2' and this past weekend Edge was inEngland celebrating the 60th birthday of one of the world's great minds.

15 Jan 2002
Bono calls him 'the scientist of U2' and this past weekend Edge was inEngland celebrating the 60th birthday of one of the world's great minds.

In Cambridge for the birthday celebrations of Stephen Hawking - the authorof A Brief History of Time - Edge revealed his own fascination with thesubject.

'I am a very interested amateur who wanted to come along and learn somethingabout the state of the art,' he told reporters. 'So far I have learnt alot.'

Edge met up with Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal in the UK. 'I'm abig fan of Martin's, certainly after today, his talk this morning ('OurComplex Cosmos and its Future') was fantastic.'

Since 1979, Professor Hawking has been Lucasian Professor ofMathematics at Cambridge university, a post awarded to Sir Isaac Newtonin 1669. His best-selling book has given him a popular status enjoyed by fewscientists, even making guest appearances on The Simpsons and Star Trek.

Professor Hawking explains on his own website that one of his achievementshas been to show, together with Sir Roger Penrose, that Einstein's GeneralTheory of Relativity implies space and time have a beginning in the Big Bangand an end in black holes.

'It has been a glorious time to be alive and doing research in theoreticalphysics, he told the audience of 200. 'Our picture of the universe haschanged a great deal in the past 40 years and I am happy if I have made asmall contribution.'

And maybe there is further fame for Hawking ahead.... in a hit song maybe ?

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