Hawking's Paradox: Answered by Two Theories (The First Theory)
Author’s Note: Hawking’s Paradox: Answered by Two Theories consists of 18 chapters divided into four parts. This preprint presents Preface and Chapter One of the first theory. Interested publishers are welcome to contact the author through this website. Hawking's Paradox Answered by Two Theories Juliet Zhong Independent Researcher | London, United Kingdom | July 2026 | ORCID: 0009-0006-5099-3671 | AI research Tool: Claude, ChatGPT [Preface] Cosmology and A Fish In his masterpiece A Brief History of Time , Stephen Hawking opens with a story about a man lecturing on cosmology. When he finished, an old woman in the back stood up. ‘What you have described is nonsense,’ she said. ‘The world is a flat plate resting on the back of a giant tortoise.’ The wise man smiled indulgently. ‘And what is the tortoise standing...