morning
reading The Mirror (UK Tabloid paper) this morning, it would appear Stephen Hawking visited a lap dancing club at the weekend and stayed for 5 hours and had a great time! http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/
Now i thought this was pretty cool, he may be todays foremost ‘thinker’ but he’s still a bloke.
Now onto my next question,
I mailed a friend (female) to tell her and she said she wasn’t interested.
i pointed out that i sent it as, although he’s maybe the greatest ‘scientist’ since einstein he is still human.
anyway she asked what makes him the so important.
So…
I’ve read ‘a brief history…’ but can someone sum up ‘why’ he holds the position of respect ect he does today in a brief statement?
thanks
nick
His Briefs made a statement the other night at the club, something to the effect of “take me off you damn’d fool”
the real reason is that he still helps lead the world in, theorhetical physics, quantum mathmatics, and particle research. he publishes in the physics ‘trade rags’ and has a few things up in peer review. A lot of it looks wonderful on paper if you can decypher the maths. last I heard he was working co-operatively with Kip Thorne on ‘Closed time like loops’ which is the grant name for time travel.
Stephen Hawking holds the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a position held by Isaac Newton.
He’s done a lot of work looking at space-time as defined by Einstein’s General Relativity, and black holes, where it breaks down.
In the 60s, he worked with Roger Penrose to show that if general relativity is correct and the universe is expanding, then things began with the big bang.
In 1974, he recognized that black holes were not really black, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate.
In 1983, he recognized that the universe has no edge or boundary.
He wrote “A Brief History of Time”, which was on the London Sunday Times best seller list for more than 4 years - longer than any other book in history.
He’s one bad-ass [url=http://www.mchawking.com/]rapper**.
Man! Not only does he enjoy a night out at a gentlemen’s establishment, but he’s also a “bad-ass rapper” And here I already thought he was cool before!!! I am in awe …
You know, that’s what he said, but he has some sentences like:
The force of gravity is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the two bodies and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
While an English sentence, it might as well be an equation. I only read the first chapter or two myself, so I don’t know how good it is. But this sentence made me roll my eyes after he proudly claimed he had no math.
Muad’Dib, when he was diagnosed, as a uni student, the doctors gave him ten years tops. Amazing. As for his being married, what do you mean by “shameful conduct”?
Oh, did anybody catch Jim Carrey on Conan O’Brian several weeks ago? He had a bit where he started talking about String Theory or something pretty deep, and Stephen Hawking called him on his cell phone. It was taped, but they said it was the real Hawking. It was pretty funny. The only part I remember was:
Carrey: You’re a genius
Hawking: No, you’re a genius
Carrey: No, you’re a genius
Hawking: Well, I have to go. I’m watching Dumb and Dumber.
I’ve thought he was extremely cool to have done The Simpsons. Not that he wasn’t cool before.
As for a married man being in a strip club, I can see where a lot of wives might look askance, to say the least. But for myself, I’m thinking it was all in good fun, not strictly lecherous on his part.
Here’s an updated link, worth checking out if only for the pic.
I’ve got a physics background, but I read A BHoT when I was 13 and at the time I found it accessible but not exactly light-reading either. It was written specifically for the layman so you shouldn’t be too daunted.
btw I think Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene gives the best non-mathematical explanations), or Joseph Silk’s The Big Bang (Though I found Joseph Silk’s book very easy as alot of what is talked about is pretty simlair to my first-year astrophysics classes, alot of other people have found this to be one of the toughest pop-sci books) are the two best pop-sci books.
