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R.I.P Stephen Hawking

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Just heard. RIP to a great mind.
    His initial prognosis was not good when he was young and look at what he achieved.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    And recorded forever in Simpsons fame.


  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Rochelle


    I have asked you to name the peers you consider more intelligent.

    Please do so.

    If I had to name someone I would consider more intellectually capable I could name one - Carl Sagan.

    Now i'm asking you to name these peers you consider superior intellects.

    I'll accept a couple of names.

    Who the fcuk are you? His parent?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 108 ✭✭CarlosHarpic


    Before they bury him have they tried switching him on and off again?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    most importantly, he had a good sense of humour...



    RIP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Fourier wrote: »
    There weren't other physicists of this generation more intelligent than him to the poster saying otherwise. Only people with more talent were from previous generations.

    I worked through some of his papers in graduate school. There was one he wrote with Hartle on Quantum Gravity that took me a week to understand, he could do it in his head in minutes.

    It's difficult to grasp how smart he actually was unless you know Theoretical Physics.

    is theoretical physics dumbing down?

    I remember a picture from 1930 of a conference with Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg and many more. None to rival them now.

    RIP mr Hawkings


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    he was not the smartest man alive, that doesn't take anything away from his achievements. he marketed himself very well. there are many people who share a similar opinion about him, youre welcome to use your favourite search engine to discover this

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is this generations Steven Hawking. altho they are intellectually on separate levels, fame amongst the general public can elevate a persons professional reputation above their peers

    I think most people know Tyson is a science populiser, not top of his game in theoretical physics.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Ah poor oul' Stephen. A great man. We'll never know what he would have contributed if he had had his full health.




    AH answer:
    A terrible disease what with the slowly wasting away. My friend had told me that he wasn't too bad until he got his first wheelchair. The brakes weren't very good on it.....Doctors said he went downhill very quickly after that

    Too soon?

    Get out, you idiot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,285 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ~ Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018

    I must dust off A Brief History of Time and re-read.

    Truly an amazing man - RIP


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    I have asked you to name the peers you consider more intelligent.

    Please do so.

    If I had to name someone I would consider more intellectually capable I could name one - Carl Sagan.

    Now i'm asking you to name these peers you consider superior intellects.

    I'll accept a couple of names.

    Weren't a lot of his theories disproven in the last few years??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Here is a man who was dealt a horrible hand at life. Despite that, he refused to let it control him and made the absolute most of his life. As someone with a disability, he inspired me. As a nerd, his writings intrigued me.

    A brilliant mind who lasted longer than anyone could have imagined. A great loss. Rest well.

    Can't top that.

    Nice tribute

    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    Duncan Thickett's take on things.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p_w0D4ByKg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 934 ✭✭✭OneOfThem Stumbled


    Ironic thing is that if he died at the time suggested by his prognosis nobody would know his name, he wouldn't even be a footnote in history - merely a researcher who may have shown promise.

    It is sad that he has died; a pity that he couldn't have lasted another 20 years or more, but he was a man who was profoundly successful by anybody's measure, who lived to see the fruits of much of his work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Didn't he also come out with a lot of bat**** crazy stuff over the years, esp towards the end.

    E.g.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/11/07/stephen-hawking-earth-could-become-ball-fire-within-600-years/839698001/

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/06/21/stephen-hawking-earth-peril-its-time-get-out-dodge/415152001/

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5463503/Professor-Stephen-Hawking-explains-happened-Big-Bang.html

    Although it must be stated - that doesn't separate him as such from fine company. Didn't your man Newton spend a huge amount of time looking at alchemy and codes hidden in the bible etc?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 108 ✭✭CarlosHarpic


    The fact is he really wasn't a great intellectual unless you are a fan of Have I Got News for You or the "Stephen Fry is a genius" type.

    Mainly he spouted globalization cliches and some of his comments were Flat Earther level retarded. Like the one about space aliens coming to atrack us of we did not stop global warming.

    The superficial grief tourism this morning is rather nauseating. You never gave a toss about him yesterday.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    is theoretical physics dumbing down?

    I remember a picture from 1930 of a conference with Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg and many more. None to rival them now.

    RIP mr Hawkings
    Many people today are as good or better than Heisenberg or Schrodinger. Einstein though there are none. Not dumbing down, just very rare for a person of that intelligence to be born.


  • Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭ironwalk


    Here is a man who was dealt a horrible hand at life. Despite that, he refused to let it control him and made the absolute most of his life. As someone with a disability, he inspired me. As a nerd, his writings intrigued me.

    A brilliant mind who lasted longer than anyone could have imagined. A great loss. Rest well.

    Ah, very well said.
    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    The fact is he really wasn't a great intellectual unless you are a fan of Have I Got News for You or the "Stephen Fry is a genius" type.
    In his black hole radiation papers he was the first person to combine general relativity and quantum field theory. Not only that but he got specific predictions from it.

    If that doesn't make somebody a great intellectual, you have a pretty high bar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,527 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Such a sad loss. Such a brilliant man with a brilliant mind and a great sense of humour too despite the horrible hand he had been dealt in life. He could always see the funny side in things and always loved to be funny and laugh. He should be an inspiration to us all and his death is a great loss to humanity and everyone who looked up to or was inspired by him.

    R.I.P Stephen Hawking. You are a part of the Universe that you loved now.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Rest in peace. A real treasure.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Inspirational man to anyone suffering a long term illness. What a fighter. Sadly missed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,156 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    For anyone having difficulty understanding his theories, he sang a song in 2014 that explained them in simpler terms...



    It was a cover of the Monty Python 'Galaxy Song' and Hawking released it as a single in 2015 to mark International Record Store Day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    One of the all-time superstars. Sayonara, Professor. :cool:



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 108 ✭✭CarlosHarpic


    topper75 wrote: »
    Didn't he also come out with a lot of bat**** crazy stuff over the years, esp towards the end.

    E.g.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/11/07/stephen-hawking-earth-could-become-ball-fire-within-600-years/839698001/

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/06/21/stephen-hawking-earth-peril-its-time-get-out-dodge/415152001/

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5463503/Professor-Stephen-Hawking-explains-happened-Big-Bang.html

    Although it must be statedw - that doesn't separate him as such from fine company. Didn't your man Newton spend a huge amount of time looking at alchemy and codes hidden in the bible etc?

    In Newton's defence Alchemy was a serious topic back thenthem, and it paved the way for Chemistry and even Psychology. Alchemy was a very important stepping stone.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 108 ✭✭CarlosHarpic


    Ger Roe wrote: »
    For anyone having difficulty understanding his theories, he sang a song in 2014 that explained them in simpler terms...



    It was a cover of the Monty Python 'Galaxy Song' and Hawking released it as a single in 2015 to mark International Record Store Day.

    Did you also get you history lessons from Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire?

    Have you considered becoming a presenter for the Discovery Channel? You're a natural.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I might watch The Theory of Everything tonight in tribute.

    RIP to a brilliant mind.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 108 ✭✭CarlosHarpic


    Fourier wrote: »
    In his black hole radiation papers he was the first person to combine general relativity and quantum field theory. Not only that but he got specific predictions from it.

    If that doesn't make somebody a great intellectual, you have a pretty high bar.


    Even though almost every cosmologist today accepts that Black Holes don't exist. An outdated concept rooted in Christian Big Bang Theory kept going by Hawking and his groupies.

    You'll have to do better that Wiki me me oul China.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭jammiedodgers


    LoLth wrote: »
    Feck. Can we skip to the bargaining part of grief? I can think of one or three people the world would happily trade (and be infinitely better for it!).

    A great mind (possibly made more so in part because of his struggle with the physical) with a cruel disease.

    I cannot find a time of death anywhere but in the US format today just happens to be 3.14 2018 . ..

    Also Einsteins birthday today...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Even though almost every cosmologist today accepts that Black Holes don't exist. An outdated concept rooted in Christian Big Bang Theory kept going by Hawking and his groupies.

    You'll have to do better that Wiki me me oul China.

    Best you get on to nasa quick then and get them to employ a cosmologist!

    https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Even though almost every cosmologist today accepts that Black Holes don't exist. An outdated concept rooted in Christian Big Bang Theory kept going by Hawking and his groupies.
    The universal consensus is that they do exist, as papers from every continent appear on the arxiv everyday about them. Hawking's "groupies" are essentially the entire physics community in this regard.
    You'll have to do better that Wiki me me oul China.
    Didn't Wiki it, note that what I said is not on Wikipedia. I have read Hawking's papers.

    Even ignoring this, if I had Wiki-ed it how does that matter? If he was factually the first to combine them, Wikipedia recording that fact doesn't diminish it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Some say he died decades ago…


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    He was also the only person on Star Trek to play himself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,710 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    nope

    just making an observation, no ego involved


    i wonder if it was an elaborate hoax, his physical condition gave him a lot of fame compared to his peers and many of them could be considered more intelligent, some people have been known to fake a different ethnicity in order to progress in their careers

    that was a joke

    How the fcuk would you know who's more intelligent than him or what it even means to be more intelligent than him? Are you a cosmologist with a similar IQ and understanding of theoretical physics? Don't embarrass yourself any further.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    If he's so smart how come he's dead? - homer j Simpson


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Some say he died decades ago…

    his body did, not his mind


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,535 ✭✭✭valoren


    Within the physics community he was regarded as just another theoretical phycisist albeit a quite brilliant one. For me his legacy will be in transcending that community through his passion of helping us the public becoming interested in and hopefully as awed by the universe we live in as Hawking himself was and personally his books succeeded in doing so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    fryup wrote: »
    his body did, not his mind

    What he means is that the real hawking died back in the 80's, plenty photos of the two men with striking differences in appearances.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    valoren wrote: »
    Within the physics community he was regarded as just another theoretical phycisist albeit a quite brilliant one.
    Hawking was considered the best of his generation in the community. He single handedly changed the study of General Relativity.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 300 ✭✭garbo speaks


    branie2 wrote: »
    I might watch The Theory of Everything tonight in tribute.

    What a powerful gesture of solidarity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Fourier wrote: »
    Hawking was considered the best of his generation in the community. He single handedly changed the study of General Relativity.
    I should say this is not to dispute valoren's main point.


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    Anyone else think he was wrong about the expansion of the universe and the big bang and stuff?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    It would depend, the expansion of the universe and the big bang weren't his ideas (they date to before he was born) most of his work was about black holes and how they interact with matter, or about matter in high gravity in general.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 macbanana


    R.i.p.Mr Hawkins.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    Very sad to hear RIP to an absolute genius.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭Zirconia
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Zirconia wrote: »
    Just because that stuff sounds a bit wierd, it doesn't make them "bat**** crazy" , I believe he is on the right line on all of these!

    Prove it :pac:

    only kidding.. is there a Hawkins protege taking up his work?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭joey1111


    Such an incredible man, may he rest in peace.

    Always found it so crazy that the guy who had probably the most brilliant brain in the world ended up with the rest of his body being basically useless. It's like God saying, no one can have it all, there's a trade-off for everything. or something. It's just way too much of a coincidence to not be significant IMO.

    I probably wouldn't understand most of his work, but enjoyed his Bang Theory cameos and also think we should give serious consideration to his warnings about AI and technology taking over.

    didnt stop him from getting married twice and producing 3 children.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed.

    You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

    And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you.

    And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

    You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly.
    ......Aaron Freeman


  • Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭Zirconia
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    Prove it
    Or to follow the scientific method - you disprove it? :pac:


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