# Stephen Hawking's Lap dancing visit **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964 "2003-07-08T09:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nickannan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bcef8e/32.png) [@nickannan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nickannan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/1 "2003-07-08T09:42:16Z")
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/](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 ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/2 "2003-07-08T10:12:38Z")
All the ladies want to get with [MC Hawking](http://www.mchawking.com). ---
**Author:** ![Hattrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@Hattrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hattrick)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/3 "2003-07-08T10:15:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/4 "2003-07-08T10:24:56Z")
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\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/5 "2003-07-08T13:23:05Z")
That was the most intriguing “must click” thread title I think I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/6 "2003-07-08T13:51:47Z")
Man! Not only does he enjoy a night out at a gentlemen’s establishment, but he’s also a “bad-ass [rapper](http://www.mchawking.com/)” And here I already thought he was cool before!!! I am in awe … ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/7 "2003-07-08T15:46:38Z")
Is his book “A Brief History of Time” accessible to the average layman/woman? I’ve always been interested but intimidated. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/8 "2003-07-09T06:20:15Z")
I think so, yes. It has exactly one equation in it, and that’s the familiar e=mc squared. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/9 "2003-07-09T06:26:13Z")
He’s also a Pink Floyd fan, and even appeared on their _Division Bell_ album (which was named by Douglas Adams). ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/10 "2003-07-09T06:51:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AndrewT \* > I think so, yes. It has exactly one equation in it, and that’s the familiar e=mc squared. 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/11 "2003-07-09T07:46:32Z")
This is so weird. Just last week I was thinking about him and wondering what he was up to. Now I know. Has the progression of his disease stopped? I honestly thought that he would be dead by now, if not completely paralyzed. Also, the bugger is married! This is shameful conduct from a man of his stature. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/12 "2003-07-11T01:40:50Z")
Check out the [Errol Morris documentary](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103882), and the [companion volume](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553077724/qid=1057887822/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-9005649-6411809?v=glance&s=books), both of which combine Hawking’s biography (up to 1991) with an overview of ABHOT. **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”? ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/13 "2003-07-11T05:19:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/14 "2003-07-11T05:36:56Z")
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. [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13157565&method=full&siteid=50143](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13157565&method=full&siteid=50143) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/15 "2003-07-11T06:16:59Z")
He’s also been on [_Futurama_ and ST:TNG.](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hawking,+Stephen) ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/16 "2003-07-11T06:36:52Z")
Hey, Richard Fenyman was also a strip club regular. Maybe the atmosphere helps physicists better understand… no…I won’t finish this sentence as it is really tasteless. Slee ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/17 "2003-07-11T12:34:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HerMajestyLorna \* > \*\*Is his book “A Brief History of Time” accessible to the average layman/woman? I’ve always been interested but intimidated. \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/18 "2003-07-11T14:51:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ponder Stibbons \* > \*\*Man! Not only does he enjoy a night out at a gentlemen’s establishment, but he’s also a “bad-ass [rapper](http://www.mchawking.com/)” And here I already thought he was cool before!!! I am in awe … \*\* And don’t forget, he’s also a [crime fighting superhero](http://www.theonion.com/onion3123/hawkingexo.html). Quite the renaissance man, no? ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/19 "2003-07-11T16:50:40Z")
Seems like I recall he won a bet from another scientist and was paid with a subscription to _Penthouse_?? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/20 "2003-07-11T16:54:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke of Rat \* > \*\*Seems like I recall he won a bet from another scientist and was paid with a subscription to _Penthouse_?? \*\* I think you’re right about that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964.md?page=2)