From: "John Chang" <zebb@teleport.com>
To: <S.W.Hawking@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "Mark O'Brien" <mark1137@hotmail.com>
Subject: A Physics Project - A theory cosmic
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 01:20:56 -0700

Hello Mr. Hawking,

My name is John Chang and I and a colleague of mine are attempting to create a comprehensive site on black holes for a final project for our Physics class. We've read your book "A Brief History of Time" and were thoroughly impressed and influenced by it. We'd like to thank you for allowing the world a glimpse of the world of physics.

Additionally, we're sending this message to you as a part of our project where we chronicle our attempt to receive a response from yourself. In addition, to make this email more interesting to read, we've included a little cosmic theory developed by a student like myself without proper training in physics. We would just like a little critique from the viewpoint that this is from one who has little knowledge about the workings of cosmology. We'd like to know why this makes a bad theory and with your permission, could we post your response?

Thank you very much for your time, as you probably already receive high volumes of mail, we are honored that you'd even read this. The following is a little theory by myself, created in hopes of being destroyed, like matter meeting with anti-matter.

Space-Time as Matter

The idea of this theory is that all matter in its end state is composed of space-time. The idea very quickly is that the state of space-time, if compressed is that of matter. This could explain the bending of space-time near large masses because the space-time that once held that area is not compressed into the mass itself thus stretching whatever space-time was left. This condensed space-time as masses would cause "depressions" in the fabric of space-time which would then result in gravity.

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John Ji-hoon Chang
zebb@teleport.com