title: The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking's Contributions to Physics
author: G. W. Gibbons
description: "Highly recommended." <br />Choice<br /><br />"Experts will be able to go as deep as they like, but even those with only a 'popular science' interest in recent developments in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology will find much to interest them." <br />SIAM News<br /><br />"As readable as a very hard book on theoretical physics would be." <br />New Scientist
zlib_text: Space&Physics
  Cosmic
  AN EPIC DEBATE IS 
  BREWING ABOUT HOW 
  FAST THE UNIVERSE IS 
  EXPANDING
  MYSTERIOUS 
  GHOST 
  NEUTRINOS
  HAWKING’S 
  FINAL 
  CONTRIBUTION 
  TO PHYSICS
  Plus:
  ISSUE 
  No.3
  August-September
  2018
  Crisis
  A
   MICROWAVES 
  FROM 
  DIAMONDS IN 
  SPACE
  WITH COVERAGE FROM
  
  In March of this year, the world mourned the passing of legendary physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. His vast 
  contributions to the field don’t need to be rehashed here, but his work advanced the understanding of the origins of the 
  universe, the nature of black holes and the very makeup of the cosmos. Though severely physically disabled at the end of 
  his life from ALS, Hawking and his collaborators Thomas Hertog and James Hartle were still knee-deep in developing an 
  alternative theory of the universe—that the universe is approximately uniform on the largest scales. Alexander Hellemans sat 
  down with Hertog to discuss this latest work [see “A Conversation with Thomas Hertog: One of Stephen Hawking’s Final 
  Coll