LONDON — Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died Wednesday. “I just hope we can avoid dropping the basket until then.”Hawking first earned prominence for his theoretical work on black holes. “It really was quite revolutionary.”Horowitz said the find helped move scientists one step closer to cracking the unified theory. Instead, he said he believed objects could be spit out of black holes in a mangled form. According to John Boslough, author of “Stephen Hawking’s Universe,” Hawking became deeply depressed.

Source: National Post March 14, 2018 04:06 UTC