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Jaded

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RIP Stephen Hawking
« on: 14 March, 2018, 06:54:46 am »
Changed our understanding of our world.
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Polar Bear

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #1 on: 14 March, 2018, 07:12:20 am »
And our attitudes toward and appreciation of people with disabilities.
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mrcharly-YHT

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #2 on: 14 March, 2018, 07:56:17 am »
<conspiracy theory> he died weeks ago and Elon Musk launched his body on the Tesla roadster in the spacesuit, first human being to be buried in space</conspiracy theory>

Real MrCharly response on reading the news Curse you, 2018!

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LEE

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #3 on: 14 March, 2018, 07:59:36 am »
Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 14 March, 2018, 07:56:17 am

Real MrCharly response on reading the news Curse you, 2018!

He outlived all the Doctors who told him he'd be dead before he reached 30.
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T42

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #4 on: 14 March, 2018, 08:01:48 am »
An amazing bloke.  I was reading Penrose's obit of him just now* - kudos to the Graun for asking him to do it.  I was tickled to see that he was scheduled to study under Fred "Continuous Creation" Hoyle, who was one of my heroes when I was a child. There'd have been fur & feathers flying later on if he had.


* didn't finish it.
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Torslanda

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #5 on: 14 March, 2018, 08:30:56 am »
He's not the Messiah dead! He 's a very naughty boy just went home . . .

My favourite Hawking 'quotes':

On the set of The Next Generation in the engine room. 'I am working on this'

For Russ & Johno's breakfast show. 'Oh no! The brakes have gone!'

R.I.P.
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VELOMANCER

Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Beardy

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #6 on: 14 March, 2018, 08:37:54 am »
Quote from: Torslanda on 14 March, 2018, 08:30:56 am
He's not the Messiah dead! He 's a very naughty boy just went home . . .

My favourite Hawking 'quotes':

On the set of The Next Generation in the engine room. 'I am working on this'

For Russ & Johno's breakfast show. 'Oh no! The brakes have gone!'

R.I.P.
I think My favourite quote  is
I've proved that time travel is possible. It's just an engineering problem now
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clarion

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #7 on: 14 March, 2018, 09:28:10 am »
I hope that the court case continues.  Tireless champion of the NHS among his other qualities.

No, he wasn't perfect, but his was a fine mind and he moved our knowledge forward significantly.

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ian

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #8 on: 14 March, 2018, 10:00:57 am »
Interesting, complicated, and incredibly smart. The world will be a bit less without him. Hawking versus Jeremy Hunt was probably the most unbalanced intellectual contest in history.

Most credit though I think goes to his passionate communication of science, of which we need more. I know it's popular to claim to have read A Brief History of Time and not understood it, but it was a brilliant, easy-to-read voyage through some complex ideas, that was intelligible without being condescending.
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Woofage

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #9 on: 14 March, 2018, 10:25:16 am »
He was an inspiration. I recall a documentary many years ago where he steadfastly stated that he would not have a motorised wheelchair while he still had use of one leg, claiming that man is "his own worst enemy".

Also, it hasn't gone unnoticed that he died on Pi day...
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simonp

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #10 on: 14 March, 2018, 10:41:16 am »
Quote from: LEE on 14 March, 2018, 07:59:36 am
Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 14 March, 2018, 07:56:17 am

Real MrCharly response on reading the news Curse you, 2018!

He outlived all the Doctors who told him he'd be dead before he reached 30.

And my dad who was diagnosed with MND in 2006 and died in 2011.

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ian

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #11 on: 14 March, 2018, 10:56:03 am »
He had a slower, less aggressive form of MND, hence him living to an old age. It's not, alas, something one can overcome through will power. Of course, it says a lot that he didn't let the diagnosis or disease and its symptoms hold him back.
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simonp

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #12 on: 14 March, 2018, 11:03:37 am »
Quote from: ian on 14 March, 2018, 10:56:03 am
He had a slower, less aggressive form of MND, hence him living to an old age. It's not, alas, something one can overcome through will power. Of course, it says a lot that he didn't let the diagnosis or disease and its symptoms hold him back.

I has been said many times that it may have focused his mind. However no-one knows what might have been without the illness.

I worked with his son Robert during a summer job in 1992 and SH was at a party hosted by our boss (who was one of the professors at my university) but I never got the chance to speak to him.
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Beardy

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #13 on: 14 March, 2018, 11:22:56 am »
Quote from: ian on 14 March, 2018, 10:56:03 am
He had a slower, less aggressive form of MND, hence him living to an old age. It's not, alas, something one can overcome through will power. Of course, it says a lot that he didn't let the diagnosis or disease and its symptoms hold him back.
I do wonder if his illness made him a greater theoretical physicist as it removed a lot of the distractions and temptations that he might have otherwise followed. It's pure speculation though as it did have MND and he was a great scientist.
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Kim

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #14 on: 14 March, 2018, 11:38:07 am »
I read and enjoyed his book at a formative age.  I'm not sure how much he actually contributed to physics, but he certainly did his bit for popularisation of unfashionable science.  He generally used his powers of cripspiration for good, and clearly had a sense of humour.  I hope his activism doesn't get lost in the noise.
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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #15 on: 14 March, 2018, 12:42:50 pm »
Disney biog in three years?
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andrewc

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #16 on: 14 March, 2018, 02:27:59 pm »
https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/973871881521516545?s=21


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Tim Hall

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #17 on: 14 March, 2018, 02:30:34 pm »
Quote from: andrewc on 14 March, 2018, 02:27:59 pm
https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/973871881521516545?s=21


Onna anti war demo with Tariq Ali & Vanessa Redgrave in 1968

Tariq Ali says it's not and it's just a caption mistake by the National Portrait Gallery.
https://twitter.com/TariqAli_News/status/973885890593480705
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andrewc

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #18 on: 14 March, 2018, 02:39:52 pm »
Damn,  I even checked on Wiki before posting .  Just shows how reliable that is.
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clarion

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #19 on: 14 March, 2018, 03:00:39 pm »
Curious.  Looked likely to me.  Wonder who that was, then?
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LEE

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #20 on: 14 March, 2018, 03:20:27 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 14 March, 2018, 11:38:07 am
I read and enjoyed his book at a formative age.  I'm not sure how much he actually contributed to physics, but he certainly did his bit for popularisation of unfashionable science.  He generally used his powers of cripspiration for good, and clearly had a sense of humour.  I hope his activism doesn't get lost in the noise.

He wrote the theory on Hawking* radiation along with other theoretical stuff with contemporaries.  Tearing Einstein a "new one" is as good as it gets for the theory bods.

*It seems fitting that the radiation he predicted had the same name as him.  I bet it came as a pleasant shock when he finally completed the equation.
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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #21 on: 14 March, 2018, 03:23:23 pm »
Jim Bowen has died as well.  Its not been a good day  :'(
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Greenbank

Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #22 on: 15 March, 2018, 08:57:13 am »
Quote from: Oscar's dad on 14 March, 2018, 03:23:23 pm
Jim Bowen has died as well.  Its not been a good day  :'(

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Beardy

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #23 on: 15 March, 2018, 09:11:13 am »
A mildly amusing front page from 'The Sun' today with a picture of SH and JB with the Headline 'Supernove, smashing great' between them. If I could workout how to post a picture I would do, but I'm not going to provide a link to the sun
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Giraffe

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Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
« Reply #24 on: 15 March, 2018, 09:44:27 am »
I liked these
https://newatlas.com/stephen-hawking-quotes/53804/
gives some context to them.
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