Science Stephen Hawking's thesis

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Cambridge University recently put in public domain Stephen Hawking's graduation thesis from 1966, titled "Properties of Expanding Universes".

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http://schema.lib.cam.ac.uk/PR-PHD-05437_CUDL2017-reduced.pdf?sequence=15&isAllowed=y

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news...-as-his-phd-thesis-goes-online-for-first-time
Professor Hawking said: “By making my PhD thesis Open Access, I hope to inspire people around the world to look up at the stars and not down at their feet; to wonder about our place in the universe and to try and make sense of the cosmos. Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding."

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/stephen-hawking-reveals-secrets-thesis-13799653
To celebrate Open Access Week 2017, Cambridge University Library’s Office of Scholarly Communication has announced Professor Hawking’s permission to make his thesis freely available through its Open Access system Apollo.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41721585
Stephen Hawking PhD readers crash Cambridge University website
 

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This is great, but so challenging to read. I have a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and I think I'm reasonably bright, but I lose understanding in the second sentence of the introduction. So much terminology (e.g. worldlines) that I do not understand. I need a physics dictionary. The ideas might be very basic, but unless you know the vocabulary you really are stuck slogging through it word by jargonistic word.

Really need to dump it in Randall Monroe's SimpleWriter and see what comes out.
 
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