A Documentation of Steven Hawking And his Life’s Great Work “A Brief History of Time” In order to truly understand Steven Hawking and all his crazy theories and pure genius that makes anyone who tries or has tried to figure out what he is talking about, feel like someone who hasn’t passed 1st grade. First a brief biography on his life and then I will, with the help of Mr. Hawking himself (actually his online website), try to explain some of his mind-boggling theories in my own words.There are two indisputable facts about Stephen Hawking. One: The British theoretical physicist is a wizard of applied mathematics and a titan of astronomy. Hawking peers light-years away into space without a telescope and conquers uncharted mathematical terrain without a computer.Two: He has been paralyzed with Lou Gehrig's disease for 30 years. In 56-year-old Hawking's case, this means that although he feels no pain, virtually every muscle (save those around his eyes) is useless.Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England, in 1942. After the London blitz of World War II, his family moved to the suburbs, where Stephen and his three younger siblings grew up. The Hawkings' was a somber household in which the entire family often spent evenings quietly reading His father, a physician, researched tropical diseases and took an active role in getting his gifted son admitted to England's best schools. In his younger years Stephen’s mind was mature. At a time when only a handful of computers existed in all of Britain, and most of those were in the military, Hawking and a group of high school friends built one from scratch using old phone switches and relays. It could solve logical problems and was written up in the local newspaper.Hawking attended Oxford University, where he studied for maybe hour a day. He spent the rest of his time drinking and socializing. Such behavior had less to do with a lack of diligence than with bor...
