Stephen Hawking is a bastard.
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- airey0
the funny thing is is that he isn't even close to being the smartest man alive, nor in fact even in the top 100 scientists of our time. he does explain things well though and has some amazing thoughts. still, fuck him for making things easier to understand and then stealing our hearts with his adorable simon-says kids toy voice. here's to the wheelman!
- waterhouse0
He does have the image thing polished like an epic showman.
- FredMcWoozy0
should I be laughing?
- ukit0
I thought he had solved the mysteries of the universe and whatnot. You're telling me that was all just clever PR?
- airey0
no, he put some amazing ideas out there but also been proven quite incorrect on some stuff. there's some great docos out there about him which detail how much he's done for science and a lot of it is really making stuff understandable and postulating some big ideas which uber-science-nerds then get to proving or disproving.
he's to science what jamie oliver is to the culinary world. pretty great but not in the top tier of amazing talents of their field.
put it this way, for all the hadron collider media, can you name the lead scientists on the theory of that project? no. cause they aint as fun as the wheeelman.
- airey0
this is a great doco:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/…
- airey0
and as final note, if anyone hasn't read this, do. it's awesome and the illustrated version is worth every cent. it gave me something to colour in while pretending to understand what the hell i was reading.
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrate…
- waterhouse0
^See what I mean? This man's P.R. machine is legendary!
- ETM0
He was told at age 21 that he had only a couple years to live. Now he is 68 years old. Pretty remarkable. I think he is the longest lasting survivor of those with that disease. The whole physics hobby of his was the icing on the cake.
- mydo0
wow, 68 with all that illness - amazing.
just goes to show, believing in god will help you over come so many problems.- or God particles anyway.ETM
- he believes in the christian god?erikjonsson
- No he doesn't. Though his 'mind of god' statement led certain types of people to think he does which is a shame.thatboyneave
- God in the sense of the Universe having design and purpose. Not a deity.ETM