Alberteinstein:e=Mc2::stephenhawkings:?

[Fedgie]

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)

[sigurdV]

  On 2/7/2012 at 11:32 PM, Fedgie 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?

[CraigD]

  On 2/7/2012 at 11:32 PM, Fedgie 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

  On 2/8/2012 at 12:28 AM, sigurdV said:

Perhaps for predicting radiation from black holes?

I agree.

 

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

 

Doesn't have the cache of good 'ole [math]E = mc^2[/math]

 

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

 

[math]v = \frac{\Delta d}{\Delta t}[/math]

[math]a = \frac{\Delta d}{\Delta t}[/math]

[math]F = m a[/math]

[math]E = \frac12 m v^2[/math]

and

[math]P = \frac{\Delta E}{\Delta t}[/math]

 

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.

[sigurdV]

  On 2/8/2012 at 2:37 AM, CraigD said:

I agree.

 

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

 

Doesn't have the cache of good 'ole [math]E = mc^2[/math]

 

 

Lol!

 

F=ma...sigh.

 

What is our world becoming?

 

A labyrinth by/for Maths Wizards?