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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ITSec on March 14, 2018, 01:49:47 AM
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But we will benefit from the warmth of his insight for centuries to come....
Stephen Hawking died today.
From CNN... https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/stephen-hawking-dead/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/stephen-hawking-dead/index.html)
From the BBC... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008)
From CBC... http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-hawking-dead-obituary-1.4575341 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-hawking-dead-obituary-1.4575341)
He admitted that he was not always correct, he shared his accomplishments by honoring others, and he made the most of a life that was faced with the most extreme of challenges. Would that we all could do so...
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Time should have a minute of silence in his honor. :bow:
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Undeniably a brilliant and incandescent mind but as a person? Like all of us he had faults.
My family, coming from Cambridge, were people I visited a lot and more than once I ended up in restaurants where Hawking was eating with his retinue. His behaviour wasn't always exemplary.
Just sayin'.
The fact you are brilliant doesn't give you the right to treat other people, (Like young wait staff.) like shit. Like reduce them to tears type shit.
Pete
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I suppose that 50 years of ALS could affect a guy's sense of humor. Did you know him before he was stricken? Personally, I was appalled by his denial of God. But if we measured everyone by their failures rather than their contributions, we'd have a hard time moving forward.
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Having a terrible affliction doesn't excuse shitty behaviour. Anyway, speaking ill of the dead and all that David. All I was trying to say was that he was human and shouldn't be overawed by his indisputable scientific brilliance. Nobody's perfect. Most of us are a dumpster fire of woeful inadequacies. I'll lead the charge on that! :grin:
Pete
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I got to attend one of his lectures when George Mitchell was able to bring him to Texas A&M some years back. One of my sons actually got to meet him when he made a visit to Caltech.
Nobel Prize? Pfffft! You know you've made it when you become a guest character on The Simpsons. Who needs a stinkin' Nobel Prize?
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He lived 55 years after he was given 2 years to live , gone at 76 . The Universe is his home now :bow:
Dusty
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He proved time travel didn't exist by throwing a party for time travelers, but not sending out invitations until the party was over. No one came.
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That surprised me. Incredible works he left us.
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Truly impressive intellect. I've tried to understand, but always got bogged down. RIP, Mr. Hawking, and uhh, ....
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You know you've made it when you become a guest character on The Simpsons.
true, true..
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If we are all to be judged by our worst days or failings instead of our successes none of us would pass muster .
Dusty
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brilliant guy. so brilliant I didn't understand anything he did.
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If we are all to be judged by our worst days or failings instead of our successes none of us would pass muster .
Dusty
Now, that's a good one, Dusty.. :thumb:
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I prefer to believe that someone took him up on his Time Travel offer.
Seriously though, sad day. The world needs men and women like Hawking now, more than ever.
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Required reading for every human inhabitant of the planet:
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I got bogged down, Chris..
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Travel well and travel far Stephen.
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I heard on the radio this morning that he acknowledged his book, a brief history of time, was the most bought & least read book of all time = )
Consequently he latter published ‘a briefer history of time’
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He proved time travel didn't exist by throwing a party for time travelers, but not sending out invitations until the party was over. No one came.
I'm wondering how he would've known, after the fact, if anyone did go back in time to that party.
Some mind boggling shite to contemplate, right there.
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I'm wondering how he would've known, after the fact, if anyone did go back in time to that party.
Some mind boggling shite to contemplate, right there.
Because the people from today's future, would know that the invitations had been sent post party, and ducked back for a squiz.
Btw
Loved the movie.
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today's future,
LOL. See what I mean.
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LOL. See what I mean.
Yeah, it's the TT conundrum.
If you go back in time 100 years,and shoot your great grandfather, you never would have been conceived and therefore could not gave gone back in time to shoot your own grandfather...
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Yeah, it's the TT conundrum.
If you go back in time 100 years,and shoot your great grandfather, you never would have been conceived and therefore could not gave gone back in time to shoot your own grandfather...
That would have been a good trick indeed...which reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once...not that it applies to me as I"m not in this category...:
If I had known Grandkids would have been this much fun, I'd have had them first!
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That would have been a good trick indeed...which reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once...not that it applies to me as I"m not in this category...:
If I had known Grandkids would have been this much fun, I'd have had them first!
Touche'..
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Yeah, it's the TT conundrum.
If you go back in time 100 years,and shoot your great grandfather, you never would have been conceived and therefore could not gave gone back in time to shoot your own grandfather...
You would still be you,even after you killed your great grandfather.....you could still come back to the present time.....your timeline would change,but you would still be you. It�s the timeline that would change from your prespective....and your prespective only. You would be aware of the two timelines but no one else on earth would be.
R.I.P. Mr Hawking all your questions are now answered.
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perspective..
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If you killed your grandfather before he sired your mom or dad I think you would cease to exist :shocked:
Dusty
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You just created two different timelines. You are the time traveler.....you exist in YOUR timeline....
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Didn't know til today during a discussion of his work that it didn't qualify for a Nobel because his theoretical work had not been proven by himself or others through experiment. Still that Simpson episode............
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If you killed your grandfather before he sired your mom or dad I think you would cease to exist :shocked:
Dusty
Too funny...I was thinking the same and you beat me to it...sired...lol
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I like turtles.
..Godspeed Mr.Hawking.
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Every physicist has to have a past time.....lol
The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician. Mickey Hart
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I had some pi in his honor.
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You just created two different timelines. You are the time traveler.....you exist in YOUR timeline....
So if your DNA indicated you are your Granfather's Grandson, (as it would), then you went back to before your own conception and killed him, whose DNA would you have upon your return.
Would it indicate you were the Grandson ?
Question..
Two Native American Indians. (Picture the feathers and spears)
The big Indian warrior is the little Indian's real father, but the little one is not his real Son...
Who is the little one ?
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Too funny...I was thinking the same and you beat me to it...sired...lol
Yep...
All I can think of now is a horse.
Which reminds me, I need to nip off to the loo.
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So if your DNA indicated you are your Granfather's Grandson, (as it would), then you went back to before your own conception and killed him, whose DNA would you have upon your return.
Would it indicate you were the Grandson ?
Question..
Two Native American Indians. (Picture the feathers and spears)
The big Indian warrior is the little Indian's real father, but the little one is not his real Son...
Who is the little one ?
Dunno what the feathers and Spears are all about, but daughters are daughters regardless.
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Adams was a lot funnier than Hawking. Hawking did, in some ways, remind me of Marvin....