OT - RIP Stephen Hawking
nattaruk
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"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up."
- Stephen Hawking
Thank you, Sir. RIP.
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A great shame - a remarkable man.
He vastly outlived his diagnosed life expectancy, which just goes to show what perseverence and not simply accepting your fate can bring.
Brilliant mind, and he liked to poke fun at himself too (see his numerous celeb cameos). We can't live forever, but the mark he left on physics has immortalized him for the ages.
RIP Doctor Hawking!
Very sad news indeed. He was one of our best people and will go down in history listed next to the greatest human minds of all time. He will be greatly missed for many reasons and on many levels.
I guess he will know the answers to all the questions now, safe journey Mr Hawking!
A big loss for the world... RIP and thank you Dr Hawking!
Truly an iconic role model. May he Rest In Peace
A genuine inspiration whether one understood his insights or not. Immortalized in the public mind along with Newton and Einstein.
And how coincidental that he died on "Pi Day"
Remember? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+stng+hawking&view=detail&mid=1519F204E9EC7AEE3CA61519F204E9EC7AEE3CA6&FORM=VIRE
Rest in Peace :{
Few ever have the perserverence, talent, and brilliance to achieve greatness in science.
Now there is one less.
His atoms now return to the universe, having worked so hard to understand it. We all owe him a great debt for how he advanced our understanding of the universe around us.
R.I.P., Dr. Hawking.
Yes, he probably did more to 'mainstream' a subject as difficult as physics so people like me can can at least try to grasp some of those head spinning concepts.
Will be sorely missed.
Life vs entropy and we're star dust again. RIP Dr. Hawking.
If anyone wants an example of overcoming adversity, look no further than Stephen Hawking.
Great man, great mind.
RIP Dr Stephen Hawking
A truly remarkable man. In a few centuries time, I think he will be venerated in the same way that Sir Isaac Newton is now. A very sad loss for science.
Alex.
And even more so for his perserverance in overcoming the many obstacles he faced.
RIP Dr Hawking
...just read about his passing earlier this morning.
LG, great link there, and yes, ironic considering the day.
Just a little reminder:
Please feel free to say your farewells to Dr. Hawking but please avoid discussion of "what comes next" as it will likely lead the conversation into TOS territory.
RIP Dr. Hawking.
He did something today that he hadn't done in years: he walked.
RIP chief.
This was a man who struggled against steep odds and prevailed. My hat is off to him.
Many people are aware of his appearances in "Next Generation", "The Simpsons" and "Futurama", but this segment of "Little Britain" for "Red Nose Day" has got to be one of his most irreverent! An extraordinary mind who could still laugh at himself. What an Indomitable combination!
Sincerely,
Bill
A true giant has passed on. RIP. At some point, he may be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for Hawking Radiation (odd that he hasn't yet), but the problem is, nobody has actually observed Hawking Radiation. Having proof that a black hole somewhere actually evaporated would do as well, tho.
Odd coincidences:
Stephen Hawking died on Pi day, 3/14/2018. Albert Einstein was born on Pi day, 3/14/1879. Stephen Hawking was born on 1/8/1942, the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death.
Sadly not as I seem to recall one rule of the Nobel prize is trhe recipient has to be living.
Of course Hawking would have recorded the date 14/3/18 and so it wouldn't have been pi day.
I thought it was supposed to the cake that was the lie, not the pi ...
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Not sure if it still is, but that seems to have been the rule in the early days of the Prize. I remember reading one of Isaac Asimov's F&SF science essays, about the contributions of Henry Moseley (a lot of it still valid today) to an amazing number of scientific fields, using X-Ray spectroscopy to study atomic structure in crystals. Nothing should have stopped him getting the Nobel for Physics in 1916.
Except, that is, for World War One. Being a patriotic Englishman, one of the best scientists of the time enlisted in 1914. He didn't come back from Gallipoli. In his essay, Asimov remarked that it "could have been the most costly single death of the war to mankind" — people were still being awarded Nobels for decades afterwards picking up where Moseley left off. No-one got the award for Physics or Chemistry in 1916.
He should be admired for many things but for me his great sense of humour stood out the most, in spite of his condition.
I'd heard this story about him before but was reminded of it on The Last Leg. Back when he still had a little body movement he was waiting for an interview to start. Everyone was going about their business when a techie pull a cable out from a wall. The cable only went to a light but Hawking slowly lowered his head and slumped down in his chair as though, he'd been the one that was unplugged. The techie naturally panicked, called to others for help and when they checked Hawking he was giggling away quite happy at what he'd just done.
Absolutely brilliant.
He will be much missed.
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Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox, Monty Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPOa72dsrGw
Well let's hope that mobility and handicapped extensions to enable more a comfortable existence are in the offing so that folk such as Stephen Hawking can enjoy their lives more pleasantly although Mr Hawking would be truly loathe to complain about his physical limiations I'm sure.