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Must have been some paper !!
I'd say Hawking wasn't one of the peer-reviewers for that one !
Quantum Physics has always been a problem for Hawking. I guess only because of his quest to glue it together with GR.
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Hawking has been able to introduce curved space-time into Quantum Field theory (QFT), one prediction for the theory being Hawking radiation of Black Holes.
An application of curved space time to QFT is seen as a first step to a Quantum gravity theory but there has been little progress in this area.
There is no use for curved space time in the Standard Model of Particle Physics where QFT uses flat space time.
It's understandle why particle physicists are uncomfortable with Hawking. They much prefer to see developments in Quantum gravity theories based on gravitons as a particle of interaction which is consistant as a QFT mechanism, or as String Theories which have evolved from QFT.
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Steven