Thank you, Stephen Hawking (Patreon)

Today's news of the death of Stephen Hawking was a shock to everyone in the physics community, and certainly to the Space Time team. We all mourn his passing. Yet what a life to celebrate! Physics was massively advanced by his contributions, and no doubt many young people chose to pursue science because of him. 

We were going to release the challenge answer today, but we decided it was worth putting in the extra time to finish our Hawking radiation episode as a timely tribute to the great man. It's going to take just a little more madly hurried work (thanks Grayson!) and so we'll probably release tomorrow (Thursday), or at the latest Friday.

The above is a teaser graphic from the episode, in which we see a quantum field being perturbed by a forming event horizon. It's a graphical representation of the actual mathematical approach in Hawking's first paper. We can't wait to show you the rest!

- Matt & the team