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#1 User is offline   Fedgie 

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Posted 07 February 2012 - 01:56 PM

What one new idea, theory, or equation will Stephen Hawking be most famous for...?
(in manner that Albert Einstein is most famous for E = MxCxC)
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 02:52 PM

View PostFedgie, on 07 February 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

What one new idea, theory, or equation will Stephen Hawking be most famous for...?
In the manner that Albert Einstein is most famous for E = MxCxC

Perhaps for predicting radiation from black holes?
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 05:01 PM

View PostFedgie, on 07 February 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

What one new idea, theory, or equation will Stephen Hawking be most famous for...?
In the manner that Albert Einstein is most famous for E = MxCxC

View PostsigurdV, on 07 February 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

Perhaps for predicting radiation from black holes?

I agree.

Though Hawking's P = \frac{\hbar c^6}{15360 \pi G^2 M^2}

Doesn't have the cache of good 'ole E = mc^2

There's a dearth of short, useful physical law or theoretical prediction formulae, so it's possible the last good one was "taken" by Einstein. Newton had a bevvy of 'em, all the fundamental definitions of classical physics, like

v = \frac{\Delta d}{\Delta t}
a = \frac{\Delta d}{\Delta t}
F = m a
E = \frac12 m v^2
and
P = \frac{\Delta E}{\Delta t}

but if some future physicists finds some beautiful, elegant theory of everything, I expect it'll be a complicated, process-requiring formalism, not the simple, intuitive formulae of the past.
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 09:23 AM

View PostCraigD, on 07 February 2012 - 05:01 PM, said:

I agree.

Though Hawking's P = \frac{\hbar c^6}{15360 \pi G^2 M^2}

Doesn't have the cache of good 'ole E = mc^2



Lol!

F=ma...sigh.

What is our world becoming?

A labyrinth by/for Maths Wizards?
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