R.I.P Stephen Hawking

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



RIP

Stephen Hawking wrote:

“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

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.

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.

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

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

CarlosHarpic wrote: »

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 An outdated concept rooted in Christian Big Bang Theory kept going by Hawking and his groupies.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

Some say he died decades ago…

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

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.

mad muffin wrote: »

Some say he died decades ago…

his body did, not his mind

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.

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.

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.

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.

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