Yesterday, Professor Stephen Hawking joined Yuri Milner, among others, onstage for the announcement of Breakthrough Starshot. The $100 million initiative aims to develop microchip-sized space probes and shoot them into space with a high-powered laser, sending them hurtling toward to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own at a distance of 4.37 light years.
The initiative is only focused on feasibility right now. Prototypes and exploration-grade probes are likely decades away, but if it all works out (a big if, admittedly), the journey would take 20 years, down from about 30,000 with current technology.
I had the opportunity to send questions to Prof. Hawking in advance of the announcement, and though he didn’t cite Popular Science directly in his public responses yesterday, he did answer some of our top questions about the Starshot initiative and the future of space exploration. The first four questions are ones I sent to Prof. Hawking – the rest were asked by other sources.
10 Questions for Stephen Hawking | TIME
Renowned for his ability to translate complex scientific concepts into language accessible to a mainstream audience, the world-famous University of Cambridge theoretical physicist turned his attention to more fundamental questions for the book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, which is being released some seven months after his death at the age of 76.
“All these are questions we love to grapple and as kids we revel in them, but gradually as we get older you have that beaten out of you. The lucky ones cling on to that sense of wonder. Stephen Hawking had that so much – a childlike sense of wonder. He had that throughout his career. He made science human. He held the key to the universe that was people’s natural curiosity and he threw the doors wide open for people,” said Dallas.
His daughter, Lucy Hawking, told the Cambridge Independent: “Communication was so important to our father in his lifetime and we see this book as an integral part of his legacy, bringing his scientific writing and his social commentary together into one beautiful edition, laced with a dose of his trademark dry humour.”
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While we don’t know which questions Hawking will choose, we do have a few favorites that we’d love to see him answer. In no particular order, they are:
Which questions are your favorites? Follow the action on Reddit and in the comment section below. #maketechhuman
If you could ask Stephen Hawking anything, what would it be? “What do you think about the multiverse theory?” Or maybe, “Any chance you remember seeing Wayne’s World 2?” Those are two among the many thousands of questions submitted to Hawking as part of his Reddit AMA; the renowned physicist will answer a selection of them in the coming weeks.
PS: In your estimation, what’s the probability of finding intelligent alien life and why?
H: The probability is low…probably. But the discoveries of the Kepler mission suggest that there are millions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone. And there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe. So it seems likely that there are others out there.
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Is there a God Stephen Hawking answer?
- If God doesn’t exist, why did the concept of his existence become almost universal? — …
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- Do you think our civilization will survive long enough to make the leap to deeper space? …
- If you could talk to Albert Einstein, what would you say?
What was Stephen Hawking’s most famous theory?
