What if he was on a plane on a giant treadmill?
What if he was on a plane on a giant treadmill?
I once met Hawking at a cocktail party. He was holding court, spouting all this mumbo jumbo about space dust and $hit.
I eased my way toward his chair and said, "Hey, excuse me Mr. Hawking. Um...ever heard of Jordan Hasay?"
He just looked at me and drooled. Needless to say I was not impressed.
theJeff wrote:
Get right wrote:
He's in a better place now.
He was an atheist, so, that is doubtful.
How could you possibly know?
John Wesley wrote:
"God doesn't exist." -- Stephen Hawking
"Stephen Hawking doesn't exist." -- God
Neither do all the African kids God starved to death while doling out home runs.
You should have worded that like this:
So Hawking calculated and theorised answers to a problem, BEKENSTEIN found Hawking's original idea was incorrect and got LAMBASTED by Hawking for that, Hawking went out and finally had to recognize BEKENSTEIN was right and grudgingly accepted then published what BEKENSTEIN found to be true?
And yes a lot of Lestrun posters are reminescent of Hawking.
Any time that a famous person dies, you have people who are trying to build that person up to more than they actually were and then people who are trying to lessen the person’s accomplishments. Looks like we have both of those on this thread.
We could use more people like Hawking.
If that's all Hawking was in your mind, then I pity you.
No need to pity me, I can wipe my own ass!
Come Again? wrote:
No need to pity me, I can wipe my own ass!
You sound like a very godly person.
He gave it a good try, but even the most formidable minds of humanity will never solve the mystery of the universe.
Theist wrote:
Grateful to who[m]?
Grateful to a billion generations of ancestors who managed to adapt, reproduce, and evolve such that humans today can not just survive, but thrive on Earth.
Arguer wrote:
Do you really think calling Trump "rump" is a good way to make your point? Say what you want about the man, but the goofy variations on his name sound so childish it is not even funny.
Hear, hear! If your strongest argument against someone is a misspelling of his name...
I feel exactly the same about the "cute" misspellings of Obama's name that I've seen. No, they don't make one sound clever--just childish.
Hawking is wildly overhyped and overrated by a PR machine in need of a marketable hero figure.
Compared to other physicists, he is AT BEST fourth-rate. His name cannot even be mentioned alongside that of Einstein, and Newton and Maxwell might be up there too.
Then there is the second tier of guys like Gamow, Bohr, Bohm, Schroedinger, Eddington, von Neumann, etc.
Then there are guys like Gell-Mann, etc in the third tier.
Then there are guys like Unruh (still alive) with whom Hawking may be classed. Ok he might be third class.
“Greatness comes through a collaboration of minds”. How current an attitude. Plenty of greatness existed before the current corporatist environment, and it was achieved through heroic individual mental efforts. The “golden age” os over, but everything moves in cycles.
The mechanism of Einstein’s greatness, when it comes to relativity, lied in identifying with precision the critical question to be asked. Incredibly he was able to proceed to answer that question with insight.
Hawking was primarily a character rather than a mind. And not a particularly interesting or appealing one.
I wonder why there is no incidents of BG Algae link to ALS in Hawaii? For the past century and most recently Spirulina and Astaxanthin have been cultivated in Hawaii for the past 30years it's been brought to market worldwide and in Hawaii it's everywhere 7 elevens, gas stations, etc being the go to whole food nutrition. The parent company is Nutrex and the stock is Cyanotech. Oh yeah it's extremely good for runners:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.runnersworld.com/website-only/fueling-the-runner-spirulina-and-chia%3fampIn his book, Hawking claims that human beings are merely "biological machines" with no consciousness, no souls, no spirit, no mind and nothing but a collection of organized chemicals that run physical brains in a deterministic machine-like way.
raymondy wrote:
We could use more people like Hawking.
The medical device industry agrees!
theJeff wrote:
Get right wrote:
He's in a better place now.
He was an atheist, so, that is doubtful.
1) His atheism has no impact on the probability of there being a God.
2) Try not to speak for God. It is unbecoming.
Theist wrote:
Theist wrote:
Grateful to who?
Designed by who ?
That question was not particularly clever or relevant when first asked. it remains a silly little play on words today.
Good job!
GODDDDisreal wrote:
Better places wrote:
Out of that wheelchair.
He was an atheist...so if God is real, he might not be in a better place!
Try not to speak for God It is unbecoming.
St. Peter Waiting at the Pearly Gates... wrote:
and he's holding up a sign that reads "No Entry. U-turn now"
This guy always rubbed me the wrong way. It wasn't because he couldn't stand up or look you in the eye. It was because of his whacko views and stupid comparisons to Einstein. Plus he would spout off about American politics. He should've just shut the eff up as GB has enough problems with their immigration problems caused by muslim scum. Same goes for Bono and other Brits. Stay out of our politics. Nobody is interested in hearing your left-winged liberal ranting.
RIP loon.
^ Ignorance, proudly displayed.
Good job!