Stephen Hawking, a Physicist Transcending Space and Time, Passes Away at 76
b'For arguably the most famous physicist on Earth, Stephen Hawking\\u2014who died Wednesday in Cambridge at 76 years old\\u2014was wrong a lot. He thought, for a while, that black holes destroyed information, which physics says is a no-no. He thought Cygnus X-1, an emitter of X-rays over 6,000 light years away, wouldn\\u2019t turn out to be a black hole. (It did.) He thought no one would ever find the Higgs boson, the particle indirectly responsible for the existence of mass in the universe.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'