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It’s probably a first – the musings of a young physicist broke the internet. Last week, the PhD thesis of one of the world’s most famous scientists was made available online. Dated 1966 and titled “Properties of expanding universes”, it lays out the thoughts of Stephen Hawking at the start of his academic career.
As one of the most requested documents from the University of Cambridge in paper form, this new electronic version was intended to make its insights available to all and, predictably, the website hosting it crashed as millions
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