A Brief History of Time

And I'm worried now that, you know, I go have surgery and now I'm one handed.

I can, I can get around with my forearm crutches with one, but I'm not as fast, um, nor am I as stable, but yeah, just those small little things that make you appreciate what, uh, like Seeing a Stephen Hawking, for instance, in his chair that, you know, had to basically, he couldn't talk, he couldn't communicate, but the guy wrote a book, The History of Time, I think it was, back in the 90s or the 80s.

And just because your body doesn't work does not mean your mind won't.

And you can kind of progress beyond that level and get to a point where You know what, you just accommodate what you can do and then you excel at that just by putting an effort into it.

Because he'd always change his mind, and so he'd be right as often as he'd be right.

But yeah, speaking of Hawking, as he mentioned in A Brief History of Time, which you'd think would address this question, he introduces several things like M-theory and string theory as if they're proven.

And he does motivate the no boundary hypothesis as if it's sort of accepted.

And even inflation, you know, at that time in 1989, something wasn't accepted.

It's just something even to this day I enjoy.

Whether I'm writing a book or making a movie or, as I say, doing a TV or a podcast, I'm just teaching.

I share what I've learned with people.

I don't lecture.

okay those are all cool stuff and we i mean how much time do we have we have enough we have enough it does that would be like a whole

semester at harvard what are some of the things that you've seen from his work that have like made you go like that have affected you well we were going to get into that today okay

yeah yeah oh that's great i'm looking i'm looking forward to it i mean this book

yeah i've read most of this book but i read it without it was a couple years ago when i read it um believing a scene this is five years old

He reasoned that exposure to warped space-time at scales beyond normal human perception would psychologically shatter people.

His other influences included the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Wise's The Haunting from 1963, Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, Ridley Scott's Alien, the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000 and Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time.

Eisner first pitched the concept verbally to producers Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin of Largo Entertainment, describing it as a haunted house story in space.

Gordon responded favourably and encouraged him to develop a full screenplay.

In fact, they emit faint radiation consisting of photons and potentially neutrinos and other particles.

But what if I told you that even Hawking's own book didn't accurately describe what's really going on? There's one crucial aspect of this theory that has become a bit too simplified in popular descriptions, specifically the idea that Hawking radiation comes from the spontaneous creation of virtual particle-antiparticle pairs near the event horizon of a black hole.

While this explanation is catchy and relatively easy to visualize, it turns out to be wrong.

or at least an egregious oversimplification of the actual quantum processes.

Near the event horizon of a black hole, this quantum fluctuation is no different.

It happens there too.

And this is what Hawking used to explain Hawking radiation in his popular 1988 book, A Brief History of Time.

He explained it like this, when a pair of virtual particles forms at the very edge of the event horizon of a black hole, before they can annihilate each other, one of them falls into the black hole while the other escapes.

And, uh, women who say silly things, I mean, they're just looking for you to, you know, reasonably and, and in a sort of friendly and humorous fashion just call them out and so on.

Like I remem- [laughs] I remember when I was dating a woman in my 20s, the big book at the time was, it was called "The Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and I saw it in her bookshelf.

I'm like, "Wow." And she's like, "Yeah, I love that book." And I pulled it out, and the spine was completely flat.

And I said, "You really, you love this book? Have you been able to read it without opening it? 'Cause this spine has never been cracked." [chuckles] And I was just...