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Steven Hawking

He went by Stephen actually.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
And the universe returns back to being what it is - unknown.

Nah, it never moved from that position. Hawking, like the rest of his peers, had ideas about the universe, but they were nothing more than that. Even with Hawking's IQ, the universe and its origins are well beyond mankind's ability to grasp. And that's Ok.

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
Seems fitting that he should pass away on Pi Day (3.14).

And he embarks to infinity . . . .

Yeah, currently inbound to Uranus and behind err beyond.

Ahhh Google....that's so precious.....

From their Homepage

Physicist.Philosopher._________Stephen Hawking 1942-2018

I can't bring myself to type the third word. Suffice to say they considered him a sandwich.

Some years ago Hawking did a luncheon chat at a Bay Area college, I cancelled my class and was able to attend.

He spent most of the time describing the technology used for his communications; they once changed some of the electronics which changed his "voice". He mentioned that a colleague once gave him a copy of Playboy magazine, but lamented he couldn't make use of it.

His parting comment was along the lines of "the avg politician speaks at 100 words per minute, but the information content is zero. If you don't understand that, politicians will take advantage of you".

I believe that when we leave this life we move on to the next. And Hawking may be rethinking his views of the cosmos about now.

He is proof that believing your own press is dangerous. He was highly respected in his field and everyone told him how smart he was. He assumed that his "smartness" extended to all of life and not just his field. When he started commenting on things beyond his field - politics, religion, the price of tea in China; he proved he wasn't as smart as everyone told him he was...

RIP

https://imgur.com/a/aabQ2

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Originally posted by Hobbs:

Now that's some funny shit right there!
No ADA in heaven!

Psalm 14:1 - "The fool says in his heart, "there is no God"...

So please media, tell me how wise this guy really was.

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Originally posted by dwood4:
Psalm 14:1 - "The fool says in his heart, "there is no God"...

So please media, tell me how wise this guy really was.

They will certainly conflate smart with wise. Smart, he was, wise, he was not.

I truly did not "get" the Cult of Hawking.

On a par with Einstein?

Give me a break.

IMO, he was given extra latitude because of his disabilities. Cruel? Maybe.

I know nothing about this guy, other than he had theories, wrote books, was handicapped and was reportedly smart.

Did he create anything tangible beyond books and a few kids?

Any inventions benefiting society?
Mathematical formulas, if so what are they?
Are our life's better somehow from something he created?

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
I know nothing about this guy, other than he had theories, wrote books, was handicapped and was reportedly smart.

Did he create anything tangible beyond books and a few kids?

Any inventions benefiting society?
Mathematical formulas, if so what are they?
Are our life's better somehow from something he created?

I can't answer any of that but just wanted to say that I think they are pretty damn good questions.

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Originally posted by PASig:
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."

In my view it takes an awful lot of Faith to believe the grand design of the universe came together from one Big Bang or series of Bangs.

Blew up a lot of things with fireworks as a kid and I failed to design anything other than bits and pieces of what was blown up.

From an explosion it all came together.
Yeah, right, not buying it.

In my view the simplest explanation is a creator, intelligent design, God.

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Originally posted by oddball:
I truly did not "get" the Cult of Hawking.

On a par with Einstein?

Give me a break.

IMO, he was given extra latitude because of his disabilities. Cruel? Maybe.

He may have been smarter than your average bear, but in the world of Physics, I'm not sure he would even make the top 20.

Still bummin' a ride...

This guy's rise and ride to fame is his disability, pure and simple. No one outside the physics world would have known who he was, had he been roaming around on his feet.

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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

Thanks for the link. I am going to get the book and check it out.



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