particle. These particles are created at the same time, go through an existence, and collide to annihilate each other. With respect to the Black Hole, one of these particles falls into the Hole, leaving the other outside of the event horizon, emitting radiation. This radiation has been coined as "Hawking Radiation." (Evans, ln. 20-25) By 1974 Hawking could still feed himself and get into and out of bed, but his wife Jane was finding it harder to take care of him and the 3 children, so Hawking got one of his research students to live with them, to help Jane out. In 1975 Hawking received the Pius XII medal from Pope Paul VI, as 'a young scientist for distinguished work'. There has been a long-standing conflict between the Catholic Church and cosmology, going back to Galileo. (McDonald, ln. 23) When they went to the Vatican, Hawking saw Galileo's Recantation, the document of Galileo's recanting on his theory that the earth went around the sun, supposedly under the pressure of the church. Hawking has a great affinity for Galileo, as he was born 300 years to the day after Galileo's death. In 1975 Hawking was elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics once held by Isaac Newton. There is a big book that everyone who holds this title are supposed to sign. After a year as Lucasian Professor they realized that ! Hawking never signed it, so he did. That was the last time he ever signed his name. In 1981 Hawking was in the Vatican attending a conference in cosmology. When granted an audience with the Pope, Hawking was told that it was OK to study the evolution of the universe after the Big Bang but to not inquire about the Big Bang itself, as it was the moment of creation and therefore the work of God. Hawking's lecture at the conference was on the possibility that space-time was finite without boundary (ie, no beginning, no end, no creation). Obviously the Pope wasn't at the conference. In 1986 Hawking met with the Pope again, when he was admitted ...
