Write a reflection on
what I just read (Chapters 2-6 and a little of 7)
Stephen Hawking started out as just a mid-range student, in
England he was in the “Academic school, section 1” which was for the smart
people. He applied to Oxford at 17, “I took the test, and I thought I failed
because all the professors talked to other students, never me, but a week later
I received a letter stating that I received a scholarship to Oxford.” This
started his career as a mathematician. He studied under Dennis Sciama “Sciama
was usually around and available to talk, unlike other professors.” Sciama
introduced him to the field of cosmology, where he expanded on definitions of
black holes, quasars, and other phenomena in space. “I realized that I could
apply to black holes the causal structure theory I had developed for
singularity theorems. In particular, the area of the horizon, the boundary of
the black hole, would always increase.” He realized this while getting into
bed, just after his daughter Lucy was born.
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