Smart guy. Otherwise a douchebag that left his devoted wife of 27 years for his hosebag nurse.

I guess karma caught up with him though with the abuse he suffered by his second wife Elaine.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
I seem to recall he later abandoned the single big bang theory in favor of a repeating series of big bang events.

The Big Bang theory forced him to admit that there must be a Creator, and he didn't like that. In attempting to retract from that notion, he came up with other theories.

I have no doubt that Dr. Hawking was angry with God because of his physical condition, but I hope he is at peace now and has been reconciled to God.



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He lost me when he got political, just like many other "experts" and "smart people."

Tony.

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Originally posted by benny6:
He lost me when he got political, just like many other "experts" and "smart people."

Tony.

I hear you. He got political years ago and remained a darling of the left ever since.

RIP, and peace to him. What a terrible thing to be imprisoned in a body like that.

Sheldon Cooper will miss him!

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
He got political years ago and remained a darling of the left ever since.

Thank God I no longer have to see stories with headlines such as "Stephen Hawking says Donald Trump's election means Man has less than 150 years of oxygen left" or "Stephen Hawking says that climate change attracts brain-eating invaders from Mars"

Seriously, fuck that guy, making outlandish predictions which are challenged by no one. You know, he's...special, so we can't criticize him or question his claims.

Seems fitting that he should pass away on Pi Day (3.14).

How cute

If he had said that global warming was a hoax, or that there are in fact only two sexes, his "smartest man in the world" reputation would have blown up. The MSM would have savaged him as a kook and a bigot. Bill Nye would have labeled him the dumbest guy in science.

(*Homer Simpson voice* Mmmmmmm, Pie Day.)

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, that, too? I wasn't aware that he was an anti-Semite as well.

What about all those brilliant astrophysicists who haven't written a book for laymen, and who don't capture society's imagination by slowly melting into a wheelchair? Too bad for them, huh? They have the same brain power as Hawking. They just didn't make themselves conspicuous, nor set their selves up as the smartest people who ever lived. No, Hawking had that market cornered.

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https://www.amazon.com/Starlig...rds=hartnett+physics
Here's a book written by a physicist for laymen (but includes lots of math & physics)that explains much. In it, Hartnett shows the universe is bounded and limited, both contradicting Hawking's opinion. I recommend it to all you. It'll open your hearts/minds to a hope of a better future. Hartnett and Moshe Carmeli should receive the Nobel for their work some day.
Don

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Originally posted by donls:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, that, too? I wasn't aware that he was an anti-Semite as well.

What about all those brilliant astrophysicists who haven't written a book for laymen, and who don't capture society's imagination by slowly melting into a wheelchair? Too bad for them, huh? They have the same brain power as Hawking. They just didn't make themselves conspicuous, nor set their selves up as the smartest people who ever lived. No, Hawking had that market cornered.

Para:
https://www.amazon.com/Starlig...rds=hartnett+physics
Here's a book written by a physicist for laymen (but includes lots of math & physics)that explains much. In it, Hartnett shows the universe is bounded and limited, both contradicting Hawking's opinion. I recommend it to all you. It'll open your hearts/minds to a hope of a better future. Hartnett and Moshe Carmeli should receive the Nobel for their work some day.
Don

Isn't that the guy who claims the Earth is 6000 years old?

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:

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Originally posted by donls:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, that, too? I wasn't aware that he was an anti-Semite as well.

What about all those brilliant astrophysicists who haven't written a book for laymen, and who don't capture society's imagination by slowly melting into a wheelchair? Too bad for them, huh? They have the same brain power as Hawking. They just didn't make themselves conspicuous, nor set their selves up as the smartest people who ever lived. No, Hawking had that market cornered.

Para:
https://www.amazon.com/Starlig...rds=hartnett+physics
Here's a book written by a physicist for laymen (but includes lots of math & physics)that explains much. In it, Hartnett shows the universe is bounded and limited, both contradicting Hawking's opinion. I recommend it to all you. It'll open your hearts/minds to a hope of a better future. Hartnett and Moshe Carmeli should receive the Nobel for their work some day.
Don

Isn't that the guy who claims the Earth is 6000 years old?

Yes.

I am genuinely going to miss David Ogden Stiers.

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Originally posted by donls:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, that, too? I wasn't aware that he was an anti-Semite as well.

What about all those brilliant astrophysicists who haven't written a book for laymen, and who don't capture society's imagination by slowly melting into a wheelchair? Too bad for them, huh? They have the same brain power as Hawking. They just didn't make themselves conspicuous, nor set their selves up as the smartest people who ever lived. No, Hawking had that market cornered.

Para:
https://www.amazon.com/Starlig...rds=hartnett+physics
Here's a book written by a physicist for laymen (but includes lots of math & physics)that explains much. In it, Hartnett shows the universe is bounded and limited, both contradicting Hawking's opinion. I recommend it to all you. It'll open your hearts/minds to a hope of a better future. Hartnett and Moshe Carmeli should receive the Nobel for their work some day.
Don

That isn't physics, it is religion. Faith is great, but not when it masquerades as science.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
I am genuinely going to miss David Ogden Stiers.

And y'know, Stiers may have been involved in politics, may have made strong political statements, but I'll be damned if know of a single one of them. I suppose this is because he stuck to what he knows, stuck to his profession, and didn't try to use his celebrity to influence others politically, unlike the dead professor.

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:

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Originally posted by donls:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, that, too? I wasn't aware that he was an anti-Semite as well.

What about all those brilliant astrophysicists who haven't written a book for laymen, and who don't capture society's imagination by slowly melting into a wheelchair? Too bad for them, huh? They have the same brain power as Hawking. They just didn't make themselves conspicuous, nor set their selves up as the smartest people who ever lived. No, Hawking had that market cornered.

Para:
https://www.amazon.com/Starlig...rds=hartnett+physics
Here's a book written by a physicist for laymen (but includes lots of math & physics)that explains much. In it, Hartnett shows the universe is bounded and limited, both contradicting Hawking's opinion. I recommend it to all you. It'll open your hearts/minds to a hope of a better future. Hartnett and Moshe Carmeli should receive the Nobel for their work some day.
Don

Isn't that the guy who claims the Earth is 6000 years old?

Yes...but if his math holds up (and so far it does), then a LOT of questions/problems are solved... there's no "missing" dark matter or "missing" dark energy, as they don't exist! Carmeli's space-velocity solves many of Einstein's problems on a cosmological scale, and Hartnett's work on Carmeli's cosmological relativity expands the possiblities. IF the universe is bounded and finite, then time expanded exponentially shortly after the initial creation.
Either way, Hartnett and others (Humphreys, et. al) show that one can hold to one's spiritual beliefs AND remain scientifically rigorous. (as Newton and others did).
Don

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Originally posted by kz1000:
RIP Stephen Hawking

Hahaha!

I guess he's finding out right now if he was right or wrong about that statement:

"We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful."

Every time I see his name I hear the voice of the WOPR from Wargames - "Would you like to play a game?"