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Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76.

Considered by many to be the world's greatest living scientist, Hawking was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark "A Brief History of Time," which has sold more than 10 million copies.
With fellow physicist Roger Penrose, Hawking merged Einstein's theory of relativity with quantum theory to suggest that space and time would begin with the Big Bang and end in black holes. Hawking also discovered that black holes were not completely black but emit radiation and would likely eventually evaporate and disappear.
Tributes flood in for Stephen Hawking
 
"A star just went out in the cosmos," Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, wrote on Twitter. "We have lost an amazing human being."
 
 
Hawking suffered from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a neurodegenerative disease commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, which is usually fatal within a few years. He was diagnosed in 1963, when he was 21, and doctors initially only gave him a few years to live.
The disease left Hawking wheelchair-bound and paralyzed. He was able to move only a few fingers on one hand and was completely dependent on others or on technology for virtually everything -- bathing, dressing, eating, even speech.
Hawking used a speech synthesizer that allowed him to speak in a computerized voice with an American accent.
"I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many," he wrote on his website.
"I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope."
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking on October 10, 1979 in Princeton, New Jersey.
 
Hawking was married twice. He and his first wife, Jane Wilde, wed when he was still a grad student and remained together for 30 years before divorcing in 1995. Hawking was later married for 11 years to Elaine Mason, one of his former nurses.
Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on what turned out to be an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 -- the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.
In an exclusive interview with CNN in October 2008, Hawking said that if humans can survive the next 200 years and learn to live in space, then our future will be bright.
The amount of people trying to see Stephen Hawking's thesis crashed Cambridge University's website
 
"I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space," Hawking told CNN's Becky Anderson.
"It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next 100 years, let alone next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
At Cambridge, he held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics -- the prestigious post held from 1669 to 1702 by Sir Isaac Newton, widely considered one of the greatest scientists in modern history.
Yet Hawking once said if he had the chance to meet Newton or Marilyn Monroe, he would opt for the movie star.
Hawking became a hero to math and science geeks and pop culture figure, guest-starring as himself on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "The Simpsons." His life was dramatized in the 2014 movie, "The Theory of Everything."
He had at least 12 honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. A CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, is considered a major honor for a British citizen and is one rank below knighthood.
Stephen Hawking: 'I may not be welcome' in Trump's America
 
Despite being a British citizen he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US's highest civilian honor, in 2009 by President Barack Obama.
In September 2016 Hawking joined 375 "concerned" scientists in penning an open letter criticizing then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, citing the threat of climate change and blasting his push for the US to leave the Paris Accord.
Fellow scientists hailed Hawking for his work and influence in the field.
"His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake," tweeted Neil deGrasse Tyson. "But it's not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure."
FM

I am disgusted with politics. I don't care about it any more. That loud mouthed ignoramus who is speaking of a "Space Force" as an extension of the armed forces just makes me cringe at populist blindness that can doom humanity.  Fighting in space would be the end of us.  Exploding a few satellites up there would mean we are trapped on the planet for ever. I have not heard one mention from him about a permanent settlement on the moon, going to mars, creating a network to look for doomsday rocks....not a damn thing about satiating our seminal need...to explore. The stupid fellow instead speaks of armies in space.

FM
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Prashad posted:

According to Hawking there was nothing before the universe.

Nothing is something...vacuum potential...E equals half hv summed for all points means infinite energy...well know and acceptable physic fact.

Hawkins said black holes can evaporate ( albeit over eons!) The idea of vacuum fluctuations  or the creation of matter anti matter particle pairs on a black holes event horizon with one escaping means black hole can die. 

FM

RIP. He a wan great man. Ow look how dis one white man set up de basic theory foh bring together quantum mechanics and gravity (meh buddy at CUNY explain dem dis big words foh me when meh go Queens NY). Me is one cane cutta who follow me sciece. And abie coolie man and blackman na know what unit cost mean suh dem ge Exxon nuff nuff loophole foh manipulate profit. Dem see education as wan commodity foh be prestige wh0res and tek kickback foh support 3 sweet homans. Dem coolie man and blackman in PPP/AFC/PNC na see am as something foh de great good. Dis one whiteman ge abie theory and dem hustlers, pushers and hucksters in abie govt down deh na know wah is de purpose foh think systematic wid theory. Dem say how dem gat street sense. Dat theory is book sense. Yes dem gat street sense but dem na know wah unit cost mean with all dem Harvard post attendance certificate and online dactorates and street sense. But bai dem street sense ge dem nuff gumpshun foh tek Pradoville house lot and sell am foh 1 mill USD. Me hope Clive Thomas jail some of dem. 

FM
Labba posted:

RIP. He a wan great man. Ow look how dis one white man set up de basic theory foh bring together quantum mechanics and gravity (meh buddy at CUNY explain dem dis big words foh me when meh go Queens NY). Me is one cane cutta who follow me sciece. And abie coolie man and blackman na know what unit cost mean suh dem ge Exxon nuff nuff loophole foh manipulate profit. Dem see education as wan commodity foh be prestige wh0res and tek kickback foh support 3 sweet homans. Dem coolie man and blackman in PPP/AFC/PNC na see am as something foh de great good. Dis one whiteman ge abie theory and dem hustlers, pushers and hucksters in abie govt down deh na know wah is de purpose foh think systematic wid theory. Dem say how dem gat street sense. Dat theory is book sense. Yes dem gat street sense but dem na know wah unit cost mean with all dem Harvard post attendance certificate and online dactorates and street sense. But bai dem street sense ge dem nuff gumpshun foh tek Pradoville house lot and sell am foh 1 mill USD. Me hope Clive Thomas jail some of dem. 

Dis Labba man ah write like Ronald. Some deep stuff dude.

FM
skeldon_man posted:
Labba posted:

RIP. He a wan great man. Ow look how dis one white man set up de basic theory foh bring together quantum mechanics and gravity (meh buddy at CUNY explain dem dis big words foh me when meh go Queens NY). Me is one cane cutta who follow me sciece. And abie coolie man and blackman na know what unit cost mean suh dem ge Exxon nuff nuff loophole foh manipulate profit. Dem see education as wan commodity foh be prestige wh0res and tek kickback foh support 3 sweet homans. Dem coolie man and blackman in PPP/AFC/PNC na see am as something foh de great good. Dis one whiteman ge abie theory and dem hustlers, pushers and hucksters in abie govt down deh na know wah is de purpose foh think systematic wid theory. Dem say how dem gat street sense. Dat theory is book sense. Yes dem gat street sense but dem na know wah unit cost mean with all dem Harvard post attendance certificate and online dactorates and street sense. But bai dem street sense ge dem nuff gumpshun foh tek Pradoville house lot and sell am foh 1 mill USD. Me hope Clive Thomas jail some of dem. 

Dis Labba man ah write like Ronald. Some deep stuff dude.

Hey hey hey...

FM
D2 posted:

I am disgusted with politics. I don't care about it any more. That loud mouthed ignoramus who is speaking of a "Space Force" as an extension of the armed forces just makes me cringe at populist blindness that can doom humanity.  Fighting in space would be the end of us.  Exploding a few satellites up there would mean we are trapped on the planet for ever. I have not heard one mention from him about a permanent settlement on the moon, going to mars, creating a network to look for doomsday rocks....not a damn thing about satiating our seminal need...to explore. The stupid fellow instead speaks of armies in space.

Putin placed Russia's Air Force under Russian Aerospace Forces in 2015. Coincidence?

GTAngler

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

Billy Ram Balgobin
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

FM
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

Why you like buss people bubble?  Jeezee!!  You and Bibi are a good couple!!!😁

Baseman
Baseman posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

Why you like buss people bubble?  Jeezee!!  You and Bibi are a good couple!!!😁

Dsquare is correct...the basic principles of physics are used in astronomy.

I guess what BB said is akin to me saying I hate business math but love accounting. 

cain
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

Billy Ram Balgobin
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

There was a famous Indian scientist called Dr Chandra. NASA named an xray telescope after him. Is that the Man?

Prashad
Prashad posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

There was a famous Indian scientist called Dr Chandra. NASA named an xray telescope after him. Is that the Man?

Chandra telescope was named after Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...manyan_Chandrasekhar

Django
Prashad posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

There was a famous Indian scientist called Dr Chandra. NASA named an xray telescope after him. Is that the Man?

I doubt it. The Dr. Chandra he spoke about is Guyanese.  The famous Indian scientist called Dr. Chandra has to be from India. 

Billy Ram Balgobin
yuji22 posted:

 

A weh abie bai Yuji pull dis red neck fram? Me family at CUNY seh he na know what de rass he a seh. Yuh cyant look at dem dis concept wid common maths. Yuh need a diffent kind maths. Yuh cyant tink about it in x-y plane me family seh. Yuh cyant look at how wan physical body move through space. Doh is pre 1960 maths. De maths gat to explain flashes and atomic rotation me family seh. Yuh need Hilbert space, spectral anaysis, eigenvalue, atomic orbital and dem ting duh. newton physics deal wid big bodies. We gat foh explain quantum bodies. De funny ting is me family fram CUNY seh is when abie get fuss quantum computah den peopkle go believe hawkin. 

FM
yuji22 posted:

Hawking was also full of BS. 

That fellow is god deluded. However, the science tells us the universe we observe is 5 percent of what is. 95 percent of what is out there is outside of physics but we could only gain understanding of it inferentially. We can see the stars a the edge of galaxies traveling at the same speed as those closer to the center. "Something" non physical is keeping the stars together.

The problem with this fellow is he would prefer to think a contemplate god is out there, a creator uncreated but yet cannot accept a self generating universe.

FM
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

I do not know this Dr Chandra. A top spins because it got its inertia from some one imparting the spin. The sum total of its inertia acts perpendicular to its spin and keep it upright. In space that would continue forever. I do not know of any proof that could add to or subtract from its inertia except an external action. Friction slows it down and cause it to lose momentum on earth. Nothing slows it down in space. There is no stationary non rotating object observed in space. By the way, Andromeda is twice the size of the milky way...some 200 light years across... and it is careening our way

FM
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Prashad posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
D2 posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

An amazing human being was he.  I don't know how a person who was confined to a wheel chair could have known so much about the world that we live in. Sometimes I want to think there is some sort of divine power present in people like this great physicist. I took one class in physics and astronomy.  Physics is not for me. Astronomy is much easier and interesting. Men like are truly gifted. 

cant speak of astronomy without physics.

I know that. When an astronomer speaks of the distance of a hundred thousand light years across the Andromeda Galaxy one must have a little knowledge of physics to understand what it means. 

A relative of mine whose husband (Guyanese) studied physics at the college of London in the early sixties told me about a Guyanese physicist by the name of Dr. Chandra who tried to prove that a spinning top defies Newton's law of inertia. This is what he said. I don't know if it has any merit to it. 

There was a famous Indian scientist called Dr Chandra. NASA named an xray telescope after him. Is that the Man?

Definitely not. This scientist is comparable to Hawkins in many ways. His name is chandrasekhar and was monumental in his ideas about the life cycle of stars. He also give us the idea of orbital limits and where a satellite would simply be crushed gravity.  It tells us the distance when  spaghettization begins  around black holes

FM
Labba posted:
yuji22 posted:

 

A weh abie bai Yuji pull dis red neck fram? Me family at CUNY seh he na know what de rass he a seh. Yuh cyant look at dem dis concept wid common maths. Yuh need a diffent kind maths. Yuh cyant tink about it in x-y plane me family seh. Yuh cyant look at how wan physical body move through space. Doh is pre 1960 maths. De maths gat to explain flashes and atomic rotation me family seh. Yuh need Hilbert space, spectral anaysis, eigenvalue, atomic orbital and dem ting duh. newton physics deal wid big bodies. We gat foh explain quantum bodies. De funny ting is me family fram CUNY seh is when abie get fuss quantum computah den peopkle go believe hawkin. 

Oh skoant Labba man, You gat me all confuse now and lost me hey. Even de books cyant explain dis deep shit. Help abie out and bruk am down in fine change nah.

FM
Labba posted:
yuji22 posted:

 

A weh abie bai Yuji pull dis red neck fram? Me family at CUNY seh he na know what de rass he a seh. Yuh cyant look at dem dis concept wid common maths. Yuh need a diffent kind maths. Yuh cyant tink about it in x-y plane me family seh. Yuh cyant look at how wan physical body move through space. Doh is pre 1960 maths. De maths gat to explain flashes and atomic rotation me family seh. Yuh need Hilbert space, spectral anaysis, eigenvalue, atomic orbital and dem ting duh. newton physics deal wid big bodies. We gat foh explain quantum bodies. De funny ting is me family fram CUNY seh is when abie get fuss quantum computah den peopkle go believe hawkin. 

It is also a different conception of what constitute matter. These days we have been battling with concepts of dark energy and dark matter both of which we cannot directly determine to exist but which we can infer acts as the skeleton of the universe and seem to hold everything together and constitute some 95 percent of all things.

 

The idea of god is begging the question. To quote aristotle also does not help. His idea of god was one that contemplates everything hence nothing so there is the something from nothing philosophically rather than from a quantum vacuum hypothesis.

FM
Prashad posted:

According to some people racism has ended. Obama was elected President. Every successful black man now got a white woman standing behind him waiting for his credit card with her purse which has a bill receipt inside of it.

And the unsuccessful blackman standing behind an obese white woman waiting for her EBT card.

FM
Prashad posted:

According to some people racism has ended. Obama was elected President. Every successful black man now got a white woman standing behind him waiting for his credit card with her purse which has a bill receipt inside of it.

Good observation. Dem NBA boys are lining up to give up their credit cards to white women.

FM
yuji22 posted:
Prashad posted:

According to some people racism has ended. Obama was elected President. Every successful black man now got a white woman standing behind him waiting for his credit card with her purse which has a bill receipt inside of it.

Good observation. Dem NBA boys are lining up to give up their credit cards to white women.

Every thing for you dumb assed low IQ nits turn into race baiting. These men go to white schools, they travel in white circles and will meet people from their own income and social class and inevitably they do marry from that class. A nit like you would of course think a white women as a prize to be sought out and be preferred over a black women. I also remember what your classless ass said about Mrs Obama.

FM
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ksazma posted:

When it comes to sex, white women are fairly easy. Guyana style sooring is unnecessary. So it is not surprising that NBA players as well as other sports players would find them accessible.

I would not classify it as easy. That demeans a woman. Culturally we  say guyanese woman has different attitude to sex but that is also an illusion. Were in not the case we would not be chattering in our backrooms and rum dens about the number of conquests we have.

FM
Prashad posted:

Skeldon_man is absolutely right. Behind every unsuccessful black man there is a very large white woman.

Why do you insist on making such stupid statements that are not borne out by facts? The statistics show that minority men earn 25 percent less than white men of similar social status. Is there a fat white women influencing this disparity? You bigots cannot restrain your ignorance even in a thread on the death of a genius of the sort as Hawkins.

FM
D2 posted:
ksazma posted:

When it comes to sex, white women are fairly easy. Guyana style sooring is unnecessary. So it is not surprising that NBA players as well as other sports players would find them accessible.

I would not classify it as easy. That demeans a woman. Culturally we  say guyanese woman has different attitude to sex but that is also an illusion. Were in not the case we would not be chattering in our backrooms and rum dens about the number of conquests we have.

I agree. I just like to write provocatively but mean no harm or ill will. 

FM

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