Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis crashes University of Cambridge website

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI



By Daniel Uria | Oct. 23, 2017 at 9:31 PM

Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The University of Cambridge's website crashed on Monday after posting famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis online.

The university in England made Hawking's thesis paper available to download online in a series of PDF files which drew droves of people to the website and caused it to crash.

Hawking wrote the doctoral thesis titled "Properties of expanding universes" in 1966 when he was 24 years old and gave Cambridge permission to post it to the university's Open Access repository.

"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," Hawking, now 75 said.

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[Honeycombe8]

1. What a remarkable man.

I can't imagine what it's like having such a brilliant mind and being an independent thinker of that level. Crashed the server! Too funny.

[Snackshack]

2. He is an incredible.

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Individual. Setting aside his contributions to Cosmology what he has accomplished through what I can only guess is pure will on his part in his fight against a horrible affliction is nothing short of astonishing.

[Skittles]

3. agreed

I got to see him at my work site some years back, it was SRO.....just to be in the same room with that guy was awesome

[ProfessorGAC]

5. You Ain't Kidding!

He was supposed to have died 45 years ago. What will power and stamina that guy must have!

[C Moon]

4. He's 75? I didn't know that.

[Nitram]

6. I hate to point out the obvious. The thesis didn't crash the site. The number of users that logged

on crashed the site.

[snooper2]

9. Yep, journalism has gone to shit.

[dalton99a]

7. That's nothing

[melm00se]

8. I wonder how many

people who download his thesis will understand it?