What is more mind boggling to me than this is the fact that Professor Hawking could accurately and properly collaborate on such complex topics with other researchers at this level given the limits to his communication.
I had the privilege of attending a live speech Professor Hawking give back in 2002 or so, and the most impactful thing about it was that it wasn't pre-recorded. He would "speak" a sentence and then there would be between 10-45 seconds of silence and then another sentence. This continued for about an hour and a half and nobody lost interest.
I have to assume that the typing, formatting etc... of this paper was handled by someone else, however even just communicating greek characters, algorithms and diagrams must have been a feat.
I had the privilege of attending a live speech Professor Hawking give back in 2002 or so, and the most impactful thing about it was that it wasn't pre-recorded. He would "speak" a sentence and then there would be between 10-45 seconds of silence and then another sentence. This continued for about an hour and a half and nobody lost interest.
I have to assume that the typing, formatting etc... of this paper was handled by someone else, however even just communicating greek characters, algorithms and diagrams must have been a feat.