Physics World May 2018

Stephen Hawking’s scientific legacy: black holes, cosmology and quantum physics

Stephen Hawking, who died on 14 March 2018 at the age of 76, was the physicist the whole world knew. This issue examines Hawking’s scientific legacy through the eyes of Seth Lloyd from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who knew the great man, and includes some of his favourite Hawking anecdotes too. Elsewhere in the issue, you can discover the eight most promising wearable technologies for monitoring your health and find out why research into the mysteries of liquids could help us know what’s going on at high pressures inside planets like Jupiter.

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