RIP Stephen Hawking

[Berzerker]

He passed away tonight at the age of 76...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008

Not bad considering the disease he suffered from

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Now he has the answers.

 

[Evie]

A great man has left us.

 

[Berzerker]

I'd like to think he's zooming around the universe checking it all out... But my Mom had a saying - you get hit on the head and you dont know what happened, get hit on the head harder and you know everything?

She was agnostic/atheist

 

[Sommerswerd]

RIP. He certainly made the best of his one spin on the merry go round. May we all do the same.

 

[Evie]

In the interesting trivia coincidence department : Albert Einstein was born, and Stephen Hawking died, on Pi day.

Maybe we should just officially make Pi Day Science Day.

 

[EnglishEdward]

A unique genius.

In our civilisation, the city of Cambridge has just lost a settled Great Scientist.

 

[inthesomeday]

When I was a kid just reading about him inspired me so much. If every generation has some scientific idol to look up to ours was definitely Hawking. He’s yet got the potential to be the most influential person of the last century depending on how effectively some of his work ends up being applied.

 

[Perfection]

 

[Archbob]

Now he has the answers.

Unless he was actually right about being an Aetheist, in which case, he's just a corpse now being eaten by worms.

Ironic, in order for him to have the answers now, he would have had to been wrong.

 

[choxorn]

Perhaps he does know everything about black holes now, perhaps not. Perhaps being dead and the interior of a black hole are similar states of non-existence.

Whatever the case, he will surely be missed.

 

[ThERat]

He will surely rest in peace as his brain simply stopped working. It's us mere mortals who cannot accept that simple fact. None of us 'remembers' a thing before birth and we will simply pass after death. Too cruel?

I don't have the brain power to really follow all the theories that astrophysicists come up with but I got inspired by his ideas and his brave struggle with his own body. What a great man!

 

[Kyriakos]

RIP.
Even as a so celebrated physicist, it likely was a very hard life, due to his illness.

 

[Leifmk]

Ave atque vale.

 

[Moriarte]

Here is one hoping such strong will won't go amiss in this vast universe

 

[Hrothbern]

 

[Arakhor]

I own both A Brief History of Time and A Briefer History of Time, the latter of which even comes with colour photography.

 

[Lexicus]

Woke up and saw this news on my phone. Very unfortunate. I've read a few of his books. I also liked the fact that unlike some other prominent scientists (looking at you Richard Dawkins) his politics weren't a steaming pile of putrid garbage.

 

[Broken_Erika]

He is one with the universe...

 

[warpus]