After the publication of the dissertation of the famous British physicist Stephen Hawking, the site of the University of Cambridge collapsed.
More than 60 thousand users visited the site in less than a day. They wanted to read or download The Properties of Expanding Universes, which Stephen Hawking wrote at 24.
This dissertation has never been published in the open access before. It was possible to get acquainted with it only in the university library. A copy of it sold for $ 86.
“I hope now people will not be disappointed that they finally have access to my work,” Hawking said.
The work was published in the open access in honor of the scientific event Open Access Week 2017. The university received hundreds of requests to make this work available. As noted in Cambridge, this work by Hawking is one of the most sought after.
Stephen Hawking has repeatedly made predictions about the future of our planet. He stated that acid rains could begin on Earth. Scientists have warned that humanity is approaching a threshold after which global warming will become irreversible. In the future, the scientist believes, the Earth may turn into Venus. This means that the Earth will be up to 250 degrees Celsius, and it will also rain from sulfuric acid.