Stephen Hawking's Big Bang theories are WRONG, claims friend of the theoretical physicist who says the maths is incorrect
Stephen Hawking's Big Bang theories are WRONG, claims friend of the theoretical physicist who says the maths is incorrect
Professor Neil Turok claims Stephen Hawking's views on the universe are wrong
Hawking's universe theory has long been the centre of physics and cosmology
But Turok has released research suggesting that Hawking's maths was incorrect
Turok claims that the universe is in a perpetual state of big bangs in a new theory
Stephen Hawking's vision on the creation of the universe are wrong, claims one of his closest friends.
Professor Neil Turok, director of the Premeter Institute in Canada, has questioned the renowned theoretical physicist's ideas on the Big Bang and the origins of the universe.
Hawking's view that space, time and matter burst into existence at once with the Big Bang, has long been the centre of physics and cosmology studies.
Stephen Hawking's vision on the creation of the universe are wrong, claims former colleague professor Neil Turok
But Turok has now released research suggesting that Hawking's maths was incorrect, saying that science should re-evaluate the claims.
'Our research implies that we either should look for another picture to understand the very early universe, or that we have to rethink the most elementary models of quantum gravity,' Job Feldbrugge, one of Turok's co-authors, said.
Hawking has disagreed with Turok's new theory, according to The Times.
In the 1980s, Hawking and Professor Jim Hartle, from the University of California at Santa Barbara, proposed a model of the universe which had no boundaries in space or time.
The concept was described in A Brief History Of Time, which sold 25 million copies worldwide.
In recent years, Hawking has examined the relationship between science and religion, writing a 2010 book, Grand Design, which argues that evoking God is not necessary to explain the origins of the universe.
In a paper titled No Smooth Beginnings for Spacetime, Turok and his colleagues have re-examined Hawking's research using new mathematical techniques.
Turok, who once worked with Hawking as a professor of applied maths and theoretical physics at Cambridge, used the new maths to show that energies within such a universe would fluctuate and immediately destroy itself.
The professor said that the maths used was not around when Hawking produced his theories about the universe.
He said offered a new theory, called the 'Big Bounce', which suggests that the universe is in a perpetual state of big bangs.
Because of this, the universe expands, then contracts to a small point and then explodes outward again, Turok said.
Hawking, now 75, has been battling degenerative motor-neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, for more than 50 years.
His works of popular science have achieved great success. A Brief History of Time stayed on the Sunday Times best-seller list for a record breaking 237 weeks.
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