Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of January 8th.
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It is the eighth day of the year, leaving 357 days remaining in 2022.
Hawking studied black holes and their relationship to quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. He was brash and brilliant and despite his early diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease that negatively affected his speech and ability to walk, was a sought after commentator.
His contributions to physics and cosmology included the singularity theorem (with Roger Penrose) and the Hawking radiation theory, which said that all black holes emit radiation. He was the co-author of numerous physics books, including The Nature of Space and Time, Superspace and Supergravity, and The Future of Spacetime.
But he was better known to the general public for his ability to explain the complicated nature of his theories regarding the Big Bang, black holes, general relativity and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. In 1988, he published A Brief History of Time, a popular physics book he wrote for those with little knowledge of, but much interest in, cosmology and history of the universe. It sold more than 50 million copies and spent 237 weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list.
Hawking died in 2018 in Cambridge, England.
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