How Stephen Hawking Understands The Universe In 150 Seconds [VIDEO]
By Kelly Dickerson of Business Insider
Have you ever wondered how the legendary Stephen Hawking thinks about the universe? He has worked on some of the most mind-boggling physics and cosmology questions, like what's at the center of a black hole. This video from The Guardian's Made Simple series, animated by Scriberia, explains some of the main ideas of Hawking's complex theories from his book A Brief History of Time, in just 150 seconds.
Here are some of the highlights from the video.
What actually is at the center of a black hole? A singularity — or tons of matter packed into a tiny space. That high concentration of matter basically creates infinite gravity — that's why nothing can escape a black hole.
What happens when a black hole disappears? It explodes, and the explosion has a force equivalent to a million nuclear bombs.
Why is Stephen Hawking so well-known? His work suggests that at one point, everything in our universe was squeezed into one of those singularities. Then, it exploded into the universe as we know it now.
We found the video through Brain Pickings — check it out:
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