"has any of Stephen Hawking's papers proven right so far?"
There's a saying attributed to, of all people, Climate Apacolypist Michael Man : "Proof is for mathematical theorems and alcoholic beverages." Science seeks _explanations_ for what we observe.
But, that said, Hawking rivals even Einstein for his contributions to theoretical physics…
"has any of Stephen Hawking's papers proven right so far?"
There's a saying attributed to, of all people, Climate Apacolypist Michael Man : "Proof is for mathematical theorems and alcoholic beverages." Science seeks _explanations_ for what we observe.
But, that said, Hawking rivals even Einstein for his contributions to theoretical physics but in a field where we can't just drop a Neutron Star into an Erlenmeyer Flask and count the x-rays as they fly out into the lab. But his predictions have been shown to be impressively, if anti-intuitively, consistent with observation.
But, if that's what you mean by Proof, yeah, Hawking's record is confidently accepted as an explanation for reality doing what it does.
"has any of Stephen Hawking's papers proven right so far?"
There's a saying attributed to, of all people, Climate Apacolypist Michael Man : "Proof is for mathematical theorems and alcoholic beverages." Science seeks _explanations_ for what we observe.
But, that said, Hawking rivals even Einstein for his contributions to theoretical physics but in a field where we can't just drop a Neutron Star into an Erlenmeyer Flask and count the x-rays as they fly out into the lab. But his predictions have been shown to be impressively, if anti-intuitively, consistent with observation.
But, if that's what you mean by Proof, yeah, Hawking's record is confidently accepted as an explanation for reality doing what it does.