Take a deep breath, and dive into the first split second of the universe

From: The Scotsman | Date: April 11, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Stephen Hawking seems slightly worse, as always. It is a miracle he has clung to life for more than 20 years with Lou Gehrig's disease. Each time I see him I feel that this will be the last, that he can't hold on to such a thin thread for much longer.

Hawking turned 60 in January. Over the course of his brilliant career, he has worked out many of the basics of black hole physics, including, most strikingly, his prediction that black holes aren't entirely black. Instead, if they have masses equivalent to a mountain's, they radiate particles of all kinds. Smaller holes would disappear in a ...

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