It could be Stephen Hawking’s most important legacy. The research, submitted two weeks ago, sets out the maths needed for a space probe to find experimental evidence for the existence of a “multiverse”. This is the idea that our cosmos is only one of many universes. If such evidence had been found while he was alive, it might have put Hawking in line for the Nobel prize he had desired for so long. “This was Stephen: to boldly go where Star Trek…

Source: The Times March 18, 2018 00:04 UTC