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but Hawking’s formulation posits that some of that information is destroyed, violating a Schrödinger equation explaining that physical systems that change over time can’t create or destroy ...

Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual ... a way of explaining, in one equation, all physical matter in the universe. At the remarkably young age of 32, he was named a fellow of the ...

Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein calculated the entropy of a black hole in the 1970s, but it took physicists until now to figure out the quantum effects that make the formula work ...