COULD BE STEPHEN HAWKING´S MOST IMPORTANT LEGACY POSTHUMOUS?

A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? the final research paper by the English theorical physicist Stephen Hawking could make an enormous impact within his field, concretely on the multiverse theory. Even though the paper was submitted last July, Thomas Hertog the co-author of this paper submitted a revised version for further review at the beginning of march, a few days before Stephen Hawking´s death. After the research has been analysed further, the reactions by several cosmologists have not been slow arrive, such as Carlos Frenk, professor of Cosmology at the Durham University who stated that” the intriguing idea in Hawking’s paper is that the multiverse left its imprint on the background radiation permeating our universe and we could measure it with a detector on a spaceship” (Frenk, 2018). He even took a step further, expressing how these ideas are absolutely breath-taking for the multiverse theory, helping the astronomers to find evidences for other universes. It looks that this research will have a deeper discussion in the following months, as it can change completely our perception of the cosmos and could even became the most important legacy of Stephen Hawking.

An artistic representation of the Multiverse

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