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culture25 days ago•7 min saved

Hawking: A Relentless Mind Behind the Cosmos

Telegraph’s review of Graham Farmelo’s Hawking: His Life and Work praises a measured portrait that blends Stephen Hawking’s towering scientific achievements with the personal toll of motor neurone disease, noting Farmelo’s use of family archives and Isobel Hawking’s blunt perspective. It presents Hawking as a determined project rather than a saint, touches on his controversial marriages and feuds, and positions the book as a strong addition to the Hawking canon, earning four stars.

via The Telegraph|

#biography #black-holes #culture

business-and-economy1 month ago•4 min saved

Kenya Moves to Reserve Small Retail for Kenyans Amid Foreign-Trader Crackdown

Kenya’s President William Ruto ordered a crackdown on foreign nationals running small retail shops and hawking, effective Sept. 7, to reserve such activities for Kenyans while welcoming foreign investment in capital-intensive ventures. The government also pushes the Local Content Bill 2025 to boost local sourcing and employment, with Parliament urged to accelerate its passage; foreigners with valid work permits remain legally protected, though applicability of the directive to current permit holders remains unclear. Analysts say foreign investment should complement Kenyan enterprise, but its impact hinges on implementation. The Tata Chemicals dispute is separate from this directive.

via Al Jazeera|

#business-and-economy #foreign-investment #hawking

technology2 months ago•16 min saved

Bremont's Hawking Supernova Limited Edition: a meteorite-dial, black-hole chronograph

Bremont unveils the 41mm Supernova Hawking Limited Edition, a space-inspired chronograph built on the Supernova platform, with meteorite counters, a black-hole motif on the exhibition caseback, DLC-coated 904L steel, 100m water resistance, and a production run of 600 pieces priced at GBP 7,950.

via Monochrome Watches|

#bremont #hawking #limited-edition

science2 months ago•5 min saved

Record-breaking black-hole merger confirms Hawking's area law with unprecedented precision

A 1.3 billion-light-year black-hole collision (GW250114) provides the strongest observational test yet of Stephen Hawking’s 1971 black hole area law: the horizon area increases after merger, consistent with theory, with 99.999% confidence thanks to improved LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA data and analysis.

via The Times of India|

#area-law #black-holes #gravitational-waves

science4 months ago•11 min saved

Hawking's Multi-Planet Survival Plan Gains Urgency as Risks Accelerate

Eight years after Stephen Hawking's death, the threats he warned about—climate change, AI, pandemics, nuclear threats, and asteroid impacts—have accelerated, validating his argument that humanity should spread beyond Earth as a form of insurance; while planetary defense has modestly improved, the overall trajectory is toward greater vulnerability, making the call to become a multi-planet species more urgent than ever.

via Space Daily|

#ai-safety #climate-change #hawking

science1 year ago•6 min saved

Black Hole Mergers Confirm Einstein and Hawking's Theories

Recent black hole merger detections by LIGO provide the clearest evidence yet supporting Einstein's general relativity and Hawking's area theorem, confirming black holes are simple objects characterized by mass and spin, and offering insights into the fundamental nature of space-time and quantum physics.

via ScienceDaily|

#black-holes #einstein #gravitational-waves

science1 year ago•7 min saved

Breakthroughs in Gravitational Wave Research and Black Hole Discoveries

New observations of black hole mergers by LIGO have confirmed key predictions of Einstein's general relativity, including the simplicity of black holes described by just mass and spin, and Hawking's area theorem, providing deeper insights into the nature of black holes and space-time.

via SciTechDaily|

#black-holes #einstein #gravitational-waves

science1 year ago•4 min saved

Black Hole Mergers Confirm Key Predictions by Einstein, Hawking, and Kerr

A recent black hole merger detected by LIGO and other observatories provides the clearest evidence yet supporting Einstein's General Relativity, Hawking's area theorem, and Kerr's black hole model, confirming key predictions about black hole properties and their connection to fundamental physics, with future detectors promising even deeper insights.

via Universe Today|

#black-hole-merger #einstein #gravitational-waves

science1 year ago•8 min saved

Decade of Black Hole Discoveries Validates Einstein and Hawking's Theories

Astronomers using advanced LIGO detectors observed a black hole collision that confirms predictions by Einstein and Hawking, providing new insights into black hole properties and the nature of spacetime.

via CNN|

#black-holes #einstein #gravitational-waves