So many people read Stephen Hawking's thesis that it crashed Cambridge University's site
News that the University of Cambridge made Stephen Hawking's seminal doctoral thesis (on how universes expand) publicly available sent positive shockwaves among physics fans around the world.
So overwhelmingly good was the response that it crashed Cambridge University's open access repository site.
"We have had a huge response to Professor Hawking's decision to make his PhD thesis publicly available to download, with 60,000 downloads in less than 24 hours," a spokesperson for the University of Cambridge said in a statement to Mashable. "As a result, visitors to our open access site may find that it is performing slower than usual and may at times be temporarily unavailable." Read more...
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So many people read Stephen Hawking's thesis that it crashed Cambridge University's site
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