18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
... years, some of the greatest minds of physics such as Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose have looked into how it might be possible...for use one day as a potential power source. Hawkings for example suggested that black holes could release energy through...
14 June 2020
The Contact Paradox
... us albeit technologically superior), and Messages from Earth (the question of whether it is safe to transmit messages or, as Stephen Hawking argued, that would place humanity in jeopardy). It could also be argued that such questions are sufficiently...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... list includes celebrities such as actor Tom Hanks, movie director James Cameron and renowned physics professor Stephen Hawking; as well as everyone from high school teachers to starry-eyed children, to me and maybe you too. People will...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... gross value added grows. Besides these financial forecasts, there are also over-dramatic headlines such as, ‘Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind’ (BBC News, December 2014) or ‘Elon Musk’s billion-dollar crusade...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... in decades to come, all of these will require preparation that includes parabolic flights. The late Prof Stephen Hawking experienced a total of four minutes of weightlessness during his microgravity flight. He was assisted by Peter Diamandis (right...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos – they feel that such expansion is imperative to preserve our species. Physicist Stephen Hawking addressed this topic during a speech at Oxford University in 2016: “Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given...
