RIP Stephen Hawking

[Kyriakos]

"And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can succeed at, and it matters that you don't give up".

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

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.

 

[Zkribbler]

Now he has the answers.

God handed him a copy of The True Treatise of the Universe. Unfortunately, there was an arithmetic error on page 3. It was quite a boner.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

A peaceful death and lasting contributions, one definition of a fulfilled life.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

A personal hero of mine.

RIP Stephen.

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Bootstoots]

I'd like to congratulate Stephen Hawking for making all the way through L. Ron Hubbard's birthday (aka my birthday) so that he could die on Pi Day/Einstein's birthday instead. He would have been the laughingstock of the great lab in the sky if he had dropped off on L. Ron Day.

Also, I'd like to congratulate him for a fantastically fulfilling and productive life despite his disabilities. It's remarkable that he even lived anywhere near this long, to say nothing of still being one of the world's leading minds while barely being able to move a muscle.

 

[Ajidica]

 

[innonimatu]

RIP. Besides whatever he accomplished, he was a decent person and a fighter throughout.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

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.

Or unless the bible is right

for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going

 

[Bugfatty300]

To paraphrase an undelivered eulogy:

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

 

[Berzerker]

the science channel is repeating the "Into the Universe" series from 2010 with Hawking

 

[warpus]

I'm not sure what's up with the Jamaican seat though

 

[Kyriakos]

The face isn't a good idea either; they should have made some custom head

 

[Kyriakos]

Of relative:

 

[Hrothbern]

According to this article in the Sunday Times, Stephen Hawkings finished just before his death an article how using a spacecraft the radiation could be measured of other universums.
This radiation would prove the multiversum theory he launched in 1983 with James Hartle.
(multiversum: there are more universums)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/stephen-hawkings-parting-shot-is-multi-cosmic-nbg0t6t9j

It could be Stephen Hawking’s most important legacy. As his family were coming together to plan the funeral of the “world’s most famous scientist”, his academic colleagues learnt that he has left behind a final groundbreaking research paper — completed on his deathbed — describing how humanity might detect other universes.

 

[uppi]

According to this article in the Sunday Times, Stephen Hawkings finished just before his death an article how using a spacecraft the radiation could be measured of other universums.
This radiation would prove the multiversum theory he launched in 1983 with James Hartle.
(multiversum: there are more universums)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/stephen-hawkings-parting-shot-is-multi-cosmic-nbg0t6t9j

I admit that my understanding of theoretical cosmology is rather lacking, but I cannot find that claim anywhere in the paper

 

[timtofly]

I admit that my understanding of theoretical cosmology is rather lacking, but I cannot find that claim anywhere in the paper

The theory states that spaceships can be used to measure gravitational waves instead of light. It is not quite dimensional thought of concurrent universes with similiar realities, but more a proof of multiple universes of various sizes and "lifespans". Or that is the gist I am reading. It is not proof of the origin of the universe, but a step in what happened at the big bang.