Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)

Subject: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 11:56 PM

I find myself in tears. We had just been talking about him.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 12:01 AM

Nice obit in the Guardian. It doesn't seem to have hit the US news yet.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 12:33 AM

All things considered, he had a good long life.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 02:58 AM

It has hit the US. A very, very good man gone.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 03:14 AM

well - that is certainly an event horizon.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 04:02 AM

RIP Professor Hawking

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 04:21 AM

I was very shocked too, although as said above, considering his illness, it's amazing he managed to live so many years.
A remarkable man.
RIP.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 04:22 AM

His science will be fundamental forever, and what a great communicator he was. And what wit!

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 05:24 AM

A sad loss to humanity.

DtG

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 07:48 AM

I enjoyed his jokey guest slots on tv's Big Bang Theory (and, of course, as Davros in Dr Who -NOT).
RtS

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 08:40 AM

Not to forget that he has featured in the new Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy series which started last week on Radio 4.

Robin

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 08:58 AM

He participated in a video of the Monty Python Galaxy Song, whizzing around space in his wheelchair and knocking Brian Cox over at Cambridge University.
He had a great sense of humour!

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 09:18 AM

His was a wonderful life determined by combining a very human optimism and a scientific determinism in which we all can learn valuable lessons.

He was willing to be wrong and capable of forgiving himself and others in a 'fully functional way'.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 10:19 AM

We have BBC news all through the night here. Heard it early, along with a BBC retrospective. Steven Hawking himself was quoted as rather proud of his stint on "The Simpsons" which Hawking described as the best American TV Show. So I guess now it's as official as it's gonna be.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 10:59 AM

The only person to play themselves on a Star Trek!

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 11:00 AM

And here is his appreciation from the WashPo.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 11:17 AM

I took an astronomy course once, and the teacher had been to a meeting of some type in Boston. She was down there, and saw a bunch of people outside a hospital, with signs saying "Get Well, Prof Hawking" and thought it was in supremely bad taste, as, after all, he must've been there dying. She was happy to find out she'd been wrong.

That was in the 80s. The Simpsons, playing poker on Star Trek, you never knew where he was going to turn up. I heard on the radio (it was NPR, and might've been BBC news) this morning that he got to ride in the aircraft and be weightless and free from his chair for a while.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 01:59 PM

A Brief History of Time radically altered and expanded my perception of the universe though much of it sailed right over my head. I'm still pecking away at it and fortunately there's a PDF copy of it available on the web.
Dr. Hawking also hilariously portrayed himself on Futurama as a credit-grabbing Science superstar.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 02:32 PM

Pop culture moments

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 03:38 PM

On the other hand
he also endured great physical abuse by care givers
like many of us

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 03:50 PM

In his own words..

Lots of interesting remarks

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 09:15 PM

Maybe it wasn't Steven Hawking in the 'flesh' but he had a great cartoon cameo on a Dilbert when there's a black hole discovered in a cubicle. . .
Stephen Hawking: "Did you buy my book or get it in the library?"
Dilbert: "Uh, library, I think."
Stephen Hawking: "You cheap bastard."

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 07:46 AM

Stephen Hawking joke. He said it on an archive TV show last night.

A photon checks into a hotel. The receptionist asks if it wants its luggage taken up.
The photon replies "no I'm travelling light".

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 08:10 AM

he also endured great physical abuse by care givers

He emphatically denied it in respect of his second wife. He is said the reports were hurtful and then something to the effect extreme bad taste. He did not refer to any other abuse, but he was remarkably complimentary of people in general. Given the way he had to speak I guess he rationed his comments to the most important (to him).

He was asked by Dara O'Brian (a comedian who gave up astro-physics at Uni) if he felt pain, and replied that Motor Neuron disease meant it wasn't pain he felt. But there was obviously discomfort in other ways.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Mar 18 - 08:42 AM

My guess is it was rowdy attempted sex...

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 07:18 PM

Tanks Bill, I couldn't disagree with any of them.

Mrzzy you could be right, he was more or less 'fully functional'

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jun 18 - 07:29 PM

The mortal remains of Stephen Hawking have been interred
in their final resting place,
the Scientists' Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Jun 18 - 03:41 AM

He's next to Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. Very appropriate.

Subject: RE: Obit: Prof. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 18 - 12:57 PM

Steven H theorized that Black Holes evaporate over time by losing one of a pair of virtual particles at the event horizon. The quantum physics crowd (Krause) said our laws of nature prevents any and all information from being lost.

So Steven said instead that black holes shrink as thermal energy is lost from a black hole. But to silence the quantum crowd he said the information could be stored in an object like a HAIRY BLACK HOLE. The hairs would store the information of everything that ever fell into it. Of course this idea has no evidence.

There is more circumstantial evidence linking the center of black holes with a big bang expanding into newly created space. This woud mean the universe we see and all that we do not see all existed inside a black hole.

My evolving idea is that inside a black hole, space and time virtually change places so one would navigate time and space passes in one direction. The Dirac equation helps show this. Beyond this there is evidence our galaxy has 10,000 or more black holes and one super massive black holes at the center.

I believe as the population of black holes and thier ultimate gravity wells grow larger the more space is produced to balance the regions of time held at a standstill. This is the source of dark energy accelerating the expansion of the universe.

Spacetime is some pretty wierd stuff
But so are Steven's hairy black holes.