Hawking

Other of his books are: "The large-scale structure of space-time" (1973),

written together with George
Ellis; "General Relativity: Revision
in the Einstein Venture" (1979), with
Werner Israel; "300 Years of
Gravity" (1987), also with
Israel; "Black holes and small
universes" (1993); "Stephen
Hawking's History of Time: A
Reader's Guide" (1993), compiled
by Gene Stone; "Quantum and
cosmological questions" (1995) and
"The nature of space and time"
(1996) -both with Roger Penrose-
; "Denboraren historia laburra" (1995); and "The universe in a nutshell" (2000).
Despite the handicap suffered, Hawking gave numerous samples of
energy and vitality. Thus, for example, invited by the US company Zero
Gravity, on April 26, 2007 he made a flight to the stratosphere in which
he could experience weightlessness .

Stephen Hawking during a flight to zero gravity in 2007 (AP)

In March 2008 he published "The secret key of the universe", a book aimed at
children and written in collaboration with his daughter Lucy.
That same year, in September, the start-up of the great LHC particle
accelerator in Geneva reopened the controversy between Hawking and
the British physicist Peter Higgs about the so-called Higgs boson.
Hawking went to bet 100 dollars that the experiment of the LHC would
not serve to find such a particle, a bet that he lost when in 2012 CERN
confirmed the existence of the boson.
Stephen Hawking left, on October 1, 2009, the ownership of the Lucasiana
Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and became director of
research at the school.

The British cosmologist Stephen Hawking during the opening

ceremony of the Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon, on November 6, 2017
(AFP)
In July 2015 he presented at the Royal
Society of London a project to search
for extraterrestrial life, financed by the
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.
In April 2016, Hawking showed his support
for a program funded by the Russian
millionaire Yuri Milner to send a ship to
another solar system, which includes a
new space probe model and with which it
promises to reach the closest star system,
Alfa Centauri. .