NEWS : Physicist Sir Stephen Hawking has Died (38)
Blimey, Rumps just got funny.
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What was his greatest contribution to physics?
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DoubleFantasy: I haven't seen the film...the film title sounded like the film called "the man who knew everything" (another great movie, based on a true story, I am told).
I would hazard a guess that this is one of the greatest love story's of our time, and shows that "behind every successful men, there is a successful women" and very much, at the same level, and matched at/in that.
I would hazard a guess that this is one of the greatest love story's of our time, and shows that "behind every successful men, there is a successful women" and very much, at the same level, and matched at/in that.
One would have to respect Stephen Hawking for his enormous contribution to science.
I saw the film and as a romantic
I recall coming away from it feeling quiet disillusioned. His wife was an angel, so sweet and caring. She was his right hand. Then he goes and has an affair with his carer. In fact, he divorced his wife and married her. 
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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking died at age 76 on Tuesday. Though his children issued a statement, his ex-wife, Jane Wilde, did not immediately speak out. Previously, however, she opened up in 2014 when The Theory of Everything, a bio-pic about Hawking’s life, was released in theaters.
Hawking brought science to the masses when his book, A Brief History of Time, was published in 1988—but that’s when things became complicated for his family. They had three children together: Lucy, Timothy and Robert.
“I rather felt that the family had been left behind,” she told Radio Times in 2014, according to the Independent. “To me, Stephen was my husband and the father of my children; one does not say to one’s husband, ‘Oh, you’re so clever! I must worship the ground under your feet, or in this case, wheels.’ I found this kind of sycophantic attitude—the attitude adopted by so many people around Stephen—exceptionally frustrating and, of course, it grew a lot worse when we finally had to engage carers.”
I never knew he was married and had three children ............R.I.P. Mr. Hawkins
Hawking brought science to the masses when his book, A Brief History of Time, was published in 1988—but that’s when things became complicated for his family. They had three children together: Lucy, Timothy and Robert.
“I rather felt that the family had been left behind,” she told Radio Times in 2014, according to the Independent. “To me, Stephen was my husband and the father of my children; one does not say to one’s husband, ‘Oh, you’re so clever! I must worship the ground under your feet, or in this case, wheels.’ I found this kind of sycophantic attitude—the attitude adopted by so many people around Stephen—exceptionally frustrating and, of course, it grew a lot worse when we finally had to engage carers.”
I never knew he was married and had three children ............R.I.P. Mr. Hawkins
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SingleGuyInOz: The world has lost a great man today, with the sad news of the death of British Professor & Physicist Sir Stephen Hawking who died peacefully aged 76.
R.I.P Sir Stephen Hawking ...
R.I.P Sir Stephen Hawking ...
Indeed! R.I.P Sir Stephen Hawking
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Oceana2U: Indeed! R.I.P Sir Stephen Hawking
I get that he was a smart man and all, but which of his theories have actually been proven?
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Miwagi: I get that he was a smart man and all, but which of his theories have actually been proven?
The task of a scientist is not to try to prove anything, it is to try to disprove a theory, if a theory can't be dis-proven it is accepted as fact until such time as it can be dis-proven.This is the basic difference between science and religion. Religion tries to convince people that their story is true by preaching and constant repetition and rituals like Sunday mass, bible study, outreach by going on missionaries. I guess they believe if you say something often enough eventually it will be accepted as fact.
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ooby_dooby: The task of a scientist is not to try to prove anything, it is to try to disprove a theory, if a theory can't be dis-proven it is accepted as fact until such time as it can be dis-proven.
This is the basic difference between science and religion. Religion tries to convince people that their story is true by preaching and constant repetition and rituals like Sunday mass, bible study, outreach by going on missionaries. I guess they believe if you say something often enough eventually it will be accepted as fact.
This is the basic difference between science and religion. Religion tries to convince people that their story is true by preaching and constant repetition and rituals like Sunday mass, bible study, outreach by going on missionaries. I guess they believe if you say something often enough eventually it will be accepted as fact.
So how extensive is your knowledge of black holes and the big bang theory. And what were his contributions to each? I'll admit it's beyond my comprehension.
Here is something I found on Time.com
Then there’s A Brief History of Time, Hawking’s mega-bestseller, first published in 1988. “I wanted the book to be read by millions of people around the world like a bestselling airport novel,” he says in the film. “I felt the mass market wanted to know how the universe began.” Fat chance, thought his agent and his publishers—but Brief History went on to sell millions upon millions of copies. The reason was that it explained some of the great mysteries of the cosmos in simple, digestible language. “It made this subject a topic of conversation among all walks of life,” says Caltech’s Thorne.
Surely you remember all those conversations. Or…maybe not. In fact, the book was nearly incomprehensible to people in all walks of life outside of theoretical physics. The real story, suggested Time book critic Paul Gray in a 2001 essay, is that “people buy a book for many reasons: either they want to read it, think they ought to read it, or want to impress people by making them think they have read it.” Whether they actually do read it is an entirely different question.
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I never read his book nor would I want to, I think, in fact I know, it's way beyond my level of comprehension. I have a pretty good understanding of the mechanics of black holes and I don't accept the big bang theory. I'm more of a "Steady State" guy. I don't believe the galaxies are flying apart from each other rather it's the slowing of the speed of light through the a matrix of gravity which gives the illusion of receding galaxies.
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Stephen Hawking would still be alive now if his family had dialed 999 and not taken him to PC World
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PC World...?
There's a spazzer joke in there somewhere.
There's a spazzer joke in there somewhere.
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Miwagi: ....
Surely you remember all those conversations. Or…maybe not. In fact, the book was nearly incomprehensible to people in all walks of life outside of theoretical physics. The real story, suggested Time book critic Paul Gray in a 2001 essay, is that “people buy a book for many reasons: either they want to read it, think they ought to read it, or want to impress people by making them think they have read it.” Whether they actually do read it is an entirely different question.
Surely you remember all those conversations. Or…maybe not. In fact, the book was nearly incomprehensible to people in all walks of life outside of theoretical physics. The real story, suggested Time book critic Paul Gray in a 2001 essay, is that “people buy a book for many reasons: either they want to read it, think they ought to read it, or want to impress people by making them think they have read it.” Whether they actually do read it is an entirely different question.
I read it and 98% went right over my head.
Last year I passed the copy to my son and he ate it like it was his favourite chocolate cookies.
No doubt he read it more than once and understood most of it.
But in that respect he's not his fathers son..
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MetaMaus: I read it and 98% went right over my head.
Last year I passed the copy to my son and he ate it like it was his favourite chocolate cookies.
No doubt he read it more than once and understood most of it.
But in that respect he's not his fathers son..
Last year I passed the copy to my son and he ate it like it was his favourite chocolate cookies.
No doubt he read it more than once and understood most of it.
But in that respect he's not his fathers son..
Sounds like that's one sharp son you have there Meta.
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R.I.P. Stephen Hawking
I haven't seen the film...the film title sounded like the film called "the man who knew everything" (another great movie, based on a true story, I am told).
I would hazard a guess that this is one of the greatest love story's of our time, and shows that "behind every successful men, there is a successful women" and very much, at the same level, and matched at/in that.