R.I.P. Stephen Hawking

brianlux

Just within the hour...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/stephen-hawking-dead/index.html

R.I.P. Mr. Hawking

tbergs

Saw this a little bit ago. He was a brilliant person and did not let his disability inhibit him.

lastexitlondon

Ah man this is bad.  I worked at his sisters house locally. She is a genius also. How he carried on so long is a mystery. The best brain our country has ever had. Cruel disease of the highest degree

brianlux

I'm amazed by how long Hawking lived with ALS-  mind boggling- not to mention the kind of concepts he worked with.

kce8

Really sad news this morning. 
I think his strong will has led him through this disease for so long.
The power of a really strong character.

rgambs

A good day to listen to some Unified Theory.
RIP Mr Hawking!

His book was huge, along with Carl Sagan he inspired the general public to care a little more about physics, and that's a beautiful thing.

DewieCox

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

F Me In The Brain

Wow, just last night I was discussing Mr Hawking with the 13 year old and some of his thoughts on the beginning of the universe, as well as Einstein's theory of relativity.  It was one of those conversations I could really only have on a surface level, not being a physicist or as well read on the subject as one interested in physics. 
Making some of the concepts of higher/deeper thought and understanding more accessible to non-scientists was a great thing Mr Hawking did for the world.
RIP

DewieCox

Also, Pi Day and Einsteins Bday, which is kinda neat.

Degeneratefk

DewieCox said:

Also, Pi Day and Einsteins Bday, which is kinda neat.

The universe talking

FoxyRedLa

RIP indeed.

hedonist

Degeneratefk said:

DewieCox said:

Also, Pi Day and Einsteins Bday, which is kinda neat.

The universe talking

Yup.

I just heard he lived 54 years with ALS?  Jesus.

WhatYouTaughtMe

hedonist said:

Degeneratefk said:

DewieCox said:

Also, Pi Day and Einsteins Bday, which is kinda neat.

The universe talking

Yup.

I just heard he lived 54 years with ALS?  Jesus.

What a life he lived too. RIP

Hobbes

RIP

Lizard

RIP Stephen

Annafalk

“Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.”

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

Stephen Hawking 

He was a very interesting human being, thank you for all you’ve given to the world.
RIP Stephen

HughFreakingDillon

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

brianlux

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

PJ_Soul

I'm really sad about this.

HughFreakingDillon

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

this shocks me. he is, what I thought, universally considered one of the most intelligent men in our lifetime, our Einstein. how is he not revered within his field?

PJ_Soul

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

this shocks me. he is, what I thought, universally considered one of the most intelligent men in our lifetime, our Einstein. how is he not revered within his field?

I feel like it's just about attitude, not his actual work or knowledge or genius. I've always have the impression that some of his peers kind of resented him for being such a public, well-known figure in the field who tended to simplify things for the sake of the general public's understanding.

HughFreakingDillon

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

this shocks me. he is, what I thought, universally considered one of the most intelligent men in our lifetime, our Einstein. how is he not revered within his field?

I feel like it's just about attitude, not his actual work or knowledge or genius. I've always have the impression that some of his peers kind of resented him for being such a public, well-known figure in the field who tended to simplify things for the sake of the general public's understanding.

I was wondering if that's what it was. they all were jealous he was on the Simpsons. LOL

PJ_Soul

HughFreakingDillon said:

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

this shocks me. he is, what I thought, universally considered one of the most intelligent men in our lifetime, our Einstein. how is he not revered within his field?

I feel like it's just about attitude, not his actual work or knowledge or genius. I've always have the impression that some of his peers kind of resented him for being such a public, well-known figure in the field who tended to simplify things for the sake of the general public's understanding.

I was wondering if that's what it was. they all were jealous he was on the Simpsons. LOL

Lol, yeah, I think so! Basically, it's scientific snobbery at work, lol, along with envy. They should all be thanking him though. Few are able to bring such topics into the public eye and inspire interest amongst the normals like Hawking did.

tempo_n_groove

First Craig Mac now Steven Hawking.  That's horrible.

mca47

Brilliant man.  Sad indeed.

lastexitlondon

He went to st.Albans boys school. I live in st.Albans . So he is very popular here

RogueStoner

How sad but inspiring...what a beautiful and determined mind can do and how long it can will an ailing body to live. R.I.P.

BIGDaddyWil

A Great Human Being!

brianlux

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

this shocks me. he is, what I thought, universally considered one of the most intelligent men in our lifetime, our Einstein. how is he not revered within his field?

I feel like it's just about attitude, not his actual work or knowledge or genius. I've always have the impression that some of his peers kind of resented him for being such a public, well-known figure in the field who tended to simplify things for the sake of the general public's understanding.

" He is, as most of us know, the greatest physicist since Einstein.

Except that he isn’t. “Rubbish,” Hawking himself responded, when I posed this proposition to him during a 1993 interview. “It’s mere media hype.” It’s undeniable that Hawking has made key contributions to both relativity and quantum physics. He came up with the insight that the Big Bang emerged from a singularity, a point so small and dense that the very laws of physics can’t describe it. He figured out what happened when black hole merge. He also came up with the startling and counter-intuitive notion that black holes can evaporate, slowly at first, then faster and faster until they explode—an idea that was at first ridiculed, but which is now mainstream. “This result,” says Bernard Carr, one of Hawking’s former PhD students, “unified relativity and quantum theory and thermodynamics.”

That would be positively mind-blowing—if true. But it’s really not: the so-called “Hawking radiation” that should emerge from black holes draws on those disparate areas of physics, but “unify” means something else entirely. Unifying relativity and quantum physics is something Einstein tried to do for the last two decades of his life, and failed. The best bet for unification these days is string theory—assuming it turns out to be correct, which we may never know."

http://time.com/3531/hawking-myth-or-legend/

PJ_Soul

brianlux said:

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

this shocks me. he is, what I thought, universally considered one of the most intelligent men in our lifetime, our Einstein. how is he not revered within his field?

I feel like it's just about attitude, not his actual work or knowledge or genius. I've always have the impression that some of his peers kind of resented him for being such a public, well-known figure in the field who tended to simplify things for the sake of the general public's understanding.

" He is, as most of us know, the greatest physicist since Einstein.

Except that he isn’t. “Rubbish,” Hawking himself responded, when I posed this proposition to him during a 1993 interview. “It’s mere media hype.” It’s undeniable that Hawking has made key contributions to both relativity and quantum physics. He came up with the insight that the Big Bang emerged from a singularity, a point so small and dense that the very laws of physics can’t describe it. He figured out what happened when black hole merge. He also came up with the startling and counter-intuitive notion that black holes can evaporate, slowly at first, then faster and faster until they explode—an idea that was at first ridiculed, but which is now mainstream. “This result,” says Bernard Carr, one of Hawking’s former PhD students, “unified relativity and quantum theory and thermodynamics.”

That would be positively mind-blowing—if true. But it’s really not: the so-called “Hawking radiation” that should emerge from black holes draws on those disparate areas of physics, but “unify” means something else entirely. Unifying relativity and quantum physics is something Einstein tried to do for the last two decades of his life, and failed. The best bet for unification these days is string theory—assuming it turns out to be correct, which we may never know."

http://time.com/3531/hawking-myth-or-legend/

I never thought of him as comparable to Einstein. Somehow I'm just seeing that comparison for the first time in this thread. I guess I was under a rock for that one, lol. He is just Stephen Hawking. No need to compare him to someone else.

brianlux

PJ_Soul said:

brianlux said:

PJ_Soul said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

DewieCox said:

Amazing what he did on the face of such adversity. Massive respect for his impact and influence, though I gather he’s not as revered within his field. 

he's not?

I've heard that also.  Not sure it's true or not though. In any case, he tenacity will never be denied.  I can't imagine going as long as he did with ALS.  Pretty amazing.

this shocks me. he is, what I thought, universally considered one of the most intelligent men in our lifetime, our Einstein. how is he not revered within his field?

I feel like it's just about attitude, not his actual work or knowledge or genius. I've always have the impression that some of his peers kind of resented him for being such a public, well-known figure in the field who tended to simplify things for the sake of the general public's understanding.

" He is, as most of us know, the greatest physicist since Einstein.

Except that he isn’t. “Rubbish,” Hawking himself responded, when I posed this proposition to him during a 1993 interview. “It’s mere media hype.” It’s undeniable that Hawking has made key contributions to both relativity and quantum physics. He came up with the insight that the Big Bang emerged from a singularity, a point so small and dense that the very laws of physics can’t describe it. He figured out what happened when black hole merge. He also came up with the startling and counter-intuitive notion that black holes can evaporate, slowly at first, then faster and faster until they explode—an idea that was at first ridiculed, but which is now mainstream. “This result,” says Bernard Carr, one of Hawking’s former PhD students, “unified relativity and quantum theory and thermodynamics.”

That would be positively mind-blowing—if true. But it’s really not: the so-called “Hawking radiation” that should emerge from black holes draws on those disparate areas of physics, but “unify” means something else entirely. Unifying relativity and quantum physics is something Einstein tried to do for the last two decades of his life, and failed. The best bet for unification these days is string theory—assuming it turns out to be correct, which we may never know."

http://time.com/3531/hawking-myth-or-legend/

I never thought of him as comparable to Einstein. Somehow I'm just seeing that comparison for the first time in this thread. I guess I was under a rock for that one, lol. He is just Stephen Hawking. No need to compare him to someone else.

I agree.  Just let him be who he was, nothing more, nothing less.  There was a lot of hype about Hawking and even he himself (as evidenced by the quote) understood that.  Modern society loves to hyperbolize (if there is such a word) popular figures.