Disability is Not An Obstacle to Success,” Inspired By Stephen Hawking’s Life And Legacy.
Stephan Hawking’s exceptional journey of hope, resilience, and intellect unfolds insights about the structure of the Universe and its impact on celestial bodies. It opens up new ideological horizons about the eleven dimensions of the electromagnetic field. Despite his debilitating physical health, he defeated all odds with his unmet determination. Our minds introspect several questions about how a physically disabled person could have unlocked the biggest mystery of the Universe and elaborated Albert Einstein’s “ Theory of relativity” in an altogether new dimension. This blog is just an effort to give tribute to a highly genius, the intuitive and psychic person whose physical disability did not stop his curiosity to decipher cosmology and astrophysics’ unresolved mysteries. Did Stephan Hawking’s Neurodegenerative Disease Open Up New Dimensions Of Mind Power? Stephan Hawking lived more than five decades with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which affected his neurodegenerative mechanism. ALS causes weakness in motor neurons that control the frontal lobe and lower spinal cord. The motor neuron disorder does not allow the brain to function normally and be highly productive; the worst condition of ALS transforms into frontal-temporal lobe dementia. Due to ALS (motor neuron slow progressive disease), his lower body was paralyzed for more than twenty years. Through the one muscle in his cheek and one handy switch, he told his findings that transformed our perspective on the Universe using a speech-generating device.Stephan Hawking was Godspeed for humanity. His critical illness, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), never stopped his quest for knowledge and rise in intellect. With thirty years of experience as a Professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, he did his spade work to build an emblem in modern physics. He was diagnosed with ALS when he was 21; due to the severity of his illness, he was not expected to see his next birthday. Exploring Time: How Stephen Hawking Explained the Universe He was a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, which is supposed to be one of the highest posts in the world. After obtaining a Ph D degree in applied mathematics, his journey was to discover remarkable discoveries in cosmology and general relativity. He was inspired by Roger Penrose’s singularity theorem about spacetime; he used his theory to the center of black holes and the whole Universe. He won the Adams Prize for his famous essay “Singularities and the Geometry of space-time in March 1966. In 1970, he became popular after postulating the second law of black hole dynamics. He wrote his first book ‘The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, in 1973. He proposed ‘quantum gravity’ and ‘quantum mechanics’ theories during the late 1970’s. Finally, his groundbreaking theories initiated ‘the Black Hole War’ in the 1980s. He co-edited the book Euclidean quantum gravity, the extended version of quantum gravity in astrophysics. From 1990 to 2000, applications of quantum mechanics emerged as hot topics for discussion in several schools of thought. How did Stephen Hawking’s Theories Unravel the Cosmological Deepest Secrets? Hawking’s Initial work was on Albert Einstein’s ‘general relativity’ theory. Cosmology and black holes were his primary research areas. His entire research was based on Einstein’s principle of equivalence, outlined in his renowned book “ A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.” The book unfolds the theoretical underpinning of cosmology as an underexplored branch of physics. He contemplated that cosmology is the link between astronomy and modern physics, which objectifies the concept of space and time. Stephen Hawking sought a “Unifying theory” to bridge quantum mechanics and general relativity. These two cornerstones of modern physics describe the universe on vastly different scales: quantum mechanics governs the microscopic world of particles. At the same time, general relativity explains the large-scale structure of spacetime and gravity. However, they conflict in extreme environments like black holes. Hawking worked on integrating quantum mechanics with general relativity to reconcile them into one cohesive theory. His work on quantum gravity and efforts to combine it with Einstein’s relativity marked a significant step towards this unification. Hawking’s efforts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity illuminated the contradictions between the two. General relativity works well for large-scale phenomena, such as planets’ orbits and galaxies’ expansion. However, general relativity breaks down at the subatomic level (where quantum mechanics reigns). This conflict is most severe in extreme conditions, like the interior of black holes or the universe’s origin. One of Hawking’s key insights was applying quantum theory to black holes, showing that classical ideas about black holes, such as nothing escaping their gravity, are incomplete. This insight implied that general relativity alone is insufficient for understanding the universe’s most extreme environments, so searching for a unifying theory is essential. He revamped the general theory of relativity in terms of quantum mechanics. He believes that “quarks,” or the building blocks of the Universe and Gravity, create time and space phenomena. He describes quantum gravity, which implies that gravitational forces and quantum effects exist around black holes and astrophysical bodies such as neutron stars. The concept of a singularity is central to Hawking’s work. A singularity is a point where the gravitational field becomes infinitely strong, warping spacetime to an infinite degree. At the center of a black hole, general relativity predicts a singularity, where density becomes infinite, and the laws of physics as we know them cease to apply. Hawking and Roger Penrose demonstrated that singularities can also exist in the universe, not just inside black holes. This insight led to the realization that the universe likely began as a singularity in the Big Bang. He describes in ‘Quantum Field Theory that quantum mechanics poses four fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetic interactions, strong and weak forces, and gravitational force, which aligns with Albert Einstein’s “general theory of relativity.” These groundbreaking theories emerged the concept of gravitational singularity, or simply space-time singularity (a condition where the intensity of gravity breaks down the spacetime itself catastrophically). Further, his work on ‘unifying theory’ further coherently clarifies the Universe structure and science of celestial bodies.
