Did he have lunch with Zatiochi?

No, but he was seen taking notes from the DR on his new theory, entitled, 'The New World Order of Astrophysics'. It tries to explain how the world revolves around itself.

"He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks."

I was under the impression that he'd been unwell for a great portion of his life.

I'm assuming he has universal health care?

I'm assuming he has universal health care?
#4 | Posted by cookfish

That deserves a FF, but I'll leave that to someone else.

2+2=5

I've been thinking about this guy today. I'm having one of those 'moments'.

I generally like Hawking. He's not the best physicist ever but he ain't no slouch either. He's have some good insights along the way and a few zingers too. I've read his book. It seems that his work on black holes is generally accepted among his peers.

I don't know if his theories have solved anything, we can let our asto-nerd friends be the judge of that, but I think he kept it interesting. And maybe even moved the science forward a little?

What an awful disease ALS is.

What mes Him so special anyways?? I mean come on please explain how this one guy is supposed to be all that and a Mars bar or a milky way?? Thanks.

Larry

here ya go larry.

Wikipedia;

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (but intends to retire from this post in 2009),

a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the distinguished research chair at Waterloo's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include the runaway bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.

Hawking has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a condition that has progressed over the years and has left him almost completely paralysed.

Hawking's key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).

He is a world-renowned theoretical physicist whose scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,and a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.

I got dibs on his high tech talking computer wheelchair.

So basically a bunch of people with their heads in the clouds think He is all that and a bag of Milky Ways. Ok Whatever floats their boats I guess.

Larry

If Hawking dies there will be a massive black hole in the science community.

Thom may have to fill the void and return to science from the blogosphere.

Larry, now and then you are really disappointingly banal (with a bag of Milky Ways of course)

He has been unwell for a couple of weeks."

Dang! Spud's not bright enuff to tell ya of the value of his work in the field of Physics but as an advocate for science generally the witty, urbane and genuinely humorous Professor Steven Hawking has been invaluable.

Also, the perserverance factor of his continuing on with his work while essentially paralysed and in a special high tech wheelchair that gives him mobility and th ability to communicate is pretty inspiring stuff too.

Get Well Soon.

Be Well.

/FF fer Cookie. Credit where credit is due.

Hey Sitdown maybe if I had My head up in the clouds instead of say My ass I would think Stephen Hawking was all that and a bag of Milky Ways. But to me the study of whats in outer space can only be truly be done by those who actually go to these spacial orbits and dothe measurements from there. I mean come on how could I know what say Sitdown ate without at least testing out Your stomach to see what it contained. I would be talking out of My ass if I said You ate something without any concrete proof. Just the same with these scientsts. All they are doing is talking out of their collective asses cause to actually know whats in space is to have actually been there and studied it.

Larry

#12 | Posted by fwthom

I had no idea you were a massive black hole?

Larry - did Galileo go there? Einstein?

And are you allowed to eat Milky Ways if you haven't been to THE Milky Way?

And are you allowed to post here without knowing how the internet works?

So basically science is a guesstimation on what Might happen.

Everyone has been shot out of a "Milky Way" so they can eat a Mily way by knowing they too have visited the "Milky Way" once before.

I turn the computer on and type words on a keyboard it transmits those words to a big bad compter in the world and it offshoots My words into several tiny computers therebye allowing My thoughts and feelings to be read by the masses. Whats so hard to figure out there??

Larry

So basically science is a guesstimation on what Might happen.

Not at all, Larry. Science is the search for facts through practice and demonstration.

What mes Him so special anyways??

His studies of black holes, primarily. He demonstrated that black holes can emit energy (Hawking radiation), that they evaporate, reconciled entropy with the fact that nothing can escape a black hole, and much more.

He is a brilliant man, Larry.

. But to me the study of whats in outer space can only be truly be done by those who actually go to these spacial orbits and dothe measurements from there

So you doubt that stars emit radiation? We've never been to the sun or any other star to test this 'theory'.

GOATMAN,

"Science as a search for facts through practice and demonstration" would be a challenging concept to liberals who rely on their dogma of evolution, global warming and appeasement.

"Science as a search for facts through practice and demonstration" would be a challenging concept to conservativess who rely on their dogma of Creationism, Global Warming Denial, Intelligent Design and selectively parsed Scripture.

~FuckWit Thom

There. FTFY.

Be Well.

"Science is the search for facts through practice and demonstration.

#19 | Posted by goatman "

Um, observation and hypothesis.

Um, observation and hypothesis.

I'll let Merriam-Webster know. That's where I got my definition. Thanks for correcting them.

So, the term "scientific method" is......

"through practice and demonstration."

This one time, when Goatman was at band camp....

This one time, when Goatman was at band camp....

???

Hawking is a great mind but apparently pales in comparison to our one true lord and master and the most magnificent intellect in the world - Barack Hussein Obama.

"I'm assuming he has universal health care?"

Holy shit is that funny.

I saw Hawkings lecture once. He was inspirational in that there was a triumph of the human spirit over the limitations imposed by a most disabling disease.

As I understand his history, his work was not particularly notable until he was afflicted and his physical activities severely limited. After than he seemed to be better able to focus on abstract work.

He and his first wife with whom he has some children, two I think, divorced, and he married his nurse, who has been caring for him since.

His longevity has been far greater than that of most people suffering from his affliction.

Again, his perseverance in view of his limitations, has been inspirational. I hope that he makes it although this publication of his condition signals that it is serious.

This is indeed sad. I don't know anything about applied mathematics or theoretical physics but a friend of mine who does always marveled at Hawkins' ability to solve complicated algebraic problems in his head.

#29 | Posted by utastaff at 2009-04-20 10:48 PM | Reply | Flag: Little Johnny One-Note

I hope he doesn't die. Then he will be whisked off to hell with Ghandi and John Lennon.

Then he will be whisked off to hell with Ghandi and John Lennon.

#34 | Posted by ZombieHunter

If that is where Ghandi and John Lennon and Steven Hawking will be, then that's where I want to be.

(lipz dreaming about playing poker with these guys)

Ghandi; I fold, this is too rich for my blood.

Lennon; I call your raise, and raise you one ton of gold.

Hawking; The statistical probability that you matched your hole card is very low, very low indeed.

All; You gonna call or not?

Hawking; Ok, I'll call.

Lipzoidial; Aha, read 'em and weep boys. I've got a pair of Gods with an angel kicker.

Hawking; Not so fast buckwheat. I've got a pair of ancient 2-headed gods and a Medussa kicker.

Lipzoidial; Bastards!!!!

(lipz dreaming about playing poker with these guys)

Hawking would probably do something sneaky (in a physicist sort of way)... like strategically placed black holes around the table to let him see other players' cards through gravitational lensing.

"Hawking is a great mind but apparently pales in comparison to our one true lord and master and the most magnificent intellect in the world - Barack Hussein Obama."

Both are smarter than any piece of crap staffer at UTA....his we know.

LM

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OK -- does that binary really spell something before I go to the trouble to decipher? I see you put it in the standard 2 hex word groupings, that's why I ask.

kT = hbar g / (2 pi c) = hbar c / (4 pi rs)

the temperature of Hawking radiation

(yes, I C&Ped it)

That's just how I normally think...

Yes, it does.

OK -- does that binary really spell something before I go to the trouble to decipher? I see you put it in the standard 2 hex word groupings, that's why I ask.

"Get well soon stephen"

Fucking nerd... get a girlfriend or invent a more efficient way of distributing pornographic videos (after all, CERN invented the internet and we all know its primary function).

Nah, j/k. I like it!

I assumed a get well soon, but too many letters. Didn't consider Stephen.

Good job

Fucking nerd... get a girlfriend...

My wife would not approve.

"CERN invented the internet"

#43 | Posted by ZombieHunter at 2009-04-21 08:09 PM | Reply | Flag: wrong

Tim Berners Lee, formerly of CERN, presently at MIT, invented the World Wide Web.
The internet grew out of ARPANET about ten years earlier.

My wife would not approve.

Nerds will inherit the Earth!

Re: Zatoichi

Yeah, I didn't credit ARAPNET and all of the people who toiled with private networks over the years... and they definitely deserve credit! CERN was instrumental nonetheless, and seeing how we're dealing with a thread that sort of involves some of the things they're interested in, I'll say they invented the internet. It's better than Al Fucking Gore.

Nerds will inherit the Earth!

We already have.

The rest of you just don't know it yet.

"Nerds will inherit the Earth!"

We already have.

The rest of you just don't know it yet.

I like this guy!