Topic: RIP Stephen Hawking

[OldSchool_IsCool]

I want to note the passing of Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and holder of the Issac Newton chair at Cambridge. Your synthesized voice, which understandably made your humor particularly dry, will be sorely missed. It brings a smile to my face knowing that you, Albert and God are up there, right now, playing dice together.

It's uncertain if Schrödinger's cat is there too.

God's (Light) Speed to you, Sir!

[spotty]

so is howard from big bang theory's motorised action figure now collectable ?

[Yamahawk]

There is a Stephen Hawking Collector's watch coming out next week, called 'A Brief History of Timex', it uses abstract algorithms for keeping time...
Charlie

[754]

Who will be hawking the watches?

[Terry in Australia]

I never liked him, what the fcuk is a "Theoretical" Physicist? If I want a Physicist, it better be a real one! I think everyone just felt sorry for him........

[Yamahawk]

I never liked him, what the fcuk is a "Theoretical" Physicist? If I want a Physicist, it better be a real one! I think everyone just felt sorry for him........

....I wonder if he had any bike boots...
Charlie

[dave500]

i had my own theories on black holes when I was a lot younger,i spent quite a few years exploring them.

[Yamahawk]

...is that an escalator...?
Charlie

[Terry in Australia]

What? No ramp?

[strynboen]

its easy to be smart ,on Things ..nobody can understand..... ..

[754]

We too are full of theories... about oil cooling, oil , 4 into 1  pipes, ignitions, tires, etc, etc..
90 percent of us are theorists, only a few of us record and analyze  real results..

 That is why the general  public, gave bikers a rougn ride.. unproven theories..
 Loud Pipes Save Lives..........Pffftttt.... Yeah Right.. ... unproven #$%*e...

[Yamahawk]

Reminds me of a story about the difference between Theory and Reality...

Little Johnny came home from school and asked his dad about the difference between Theory and Reality...
Dad said, "Well son, here's an example... go in the kitchen, and ask your mom if she would sleep with any man in the world for $1,000,000!"
Johnny went in and asked mom, and she said...
"Well son, I have been faithful to your father for over 20 years, and I would never think about doing that... but, for a $1,000,000 I could send you kids to the best college in the country, and we could live well for the rest of our lives, so I might consider it!"
Johnny goes back, and tells dad, and he says,
"Ok son, here's another example... go ask your 17 year old sister, if she would sleep with any man in the world for $2,000,000!"
Johnny finds his sister in the bathroom, getting ready for her date, and he asks her... She says,
"Well, I have been saving myself for my husband! But, for $2,000,000 I could give to the poor Honda owners of America, and save the whales, and all sorts of good things for the world! I might consider it!"
Johnny goes back and tells his Dad, and he says... "Now here son, is the difference between Theory and Reality...
In Theory, we are sitting on $3,000,000! But, in reality... we live with a couple of tramps."

Charlie

[MikeSimon]

I have always found it amazing how some people feel challenged by others who are obviously smarter than they and then put them down, bully them or make fun of them.

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.

[Duke McDukiedook]

 

[dave500]

that stairway to heaven is built way out of code,too steep,too short risers and step back,no hand rails on both sides,in theory a bloke could get killed climbing that thing?

[Duke McDukiedook]

That would be one hell of an ADA ramp... 

[Ichiban 4]

i had my own theories on black holes when I was a lot younger,i spent quite a few years exploring them.

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I'm a little surprised by the number of posts here.  Personally feel that Dr. Hawking was a brilliant academic (used to fancy I'd be a "physicist" myself when young LOL)..but as with most pure academics..I see them as being "in their heads" too much.

I respect his determination and energy to go-on (many years beyond what's expected for ALS sufferers)..but as some have suggested here..think his celebrity was significantly due to his physical situation and appearance..rather than especially profound theoretical insight. 

I readily admit that I couldn't arrive at the insights that Dr.Hawking had.  But comparing him to Einstein in terms of influence/impact on the field of physics? I think he will be forgotten in time..in that respect.  Great example of human determination in face of almost overwhelming physical limitations I feel though..and I always felt a sense of admiration for him in that respect.

Ichi

[Bailgang]

I readily admit that I couldn't arrive at the insights that Dr.Hawking had.  But comparing him to Einstein in terms of influence/impact on the field of physics? I think he will be forgotten in time..in that respect.  Great example of human determination in face of almost overwhelming physical limitations I feel though..and I always felt a sense of admiration for him in that respect.

Ichi

+1
I think comparing him to Einstein is a bit of a stretch too but I still admired him.

[Terry in Australia]

Well he died on Einsteins Birthday, so I guess that's an interesting coincidence?

[dave500]

#$%*ing hell terry that's weird,i was born on my birthday!doesent take Einstein to work that out though my wife told me!

[ken65]

#$%*ing hell terry that's weird,i was born on my birthday!doesent take Einstein to work that out though my wife told me!

gold

[Steve F]

that stairway to heaven is built way out of code,too steep,too short risers and step back,no hand rails on both sides,in theory a bloke could get killed climbing that thing?

Quite frankly, if a person were climbing those stairs, being killed is a moot point.

[dave500]

oh gee?you sure?i mean you could sue god and a get bloody good pay out?set you up for life?

[MikeSimon]

I readily admit that I couldn't arrive at the insights that Dr.Hawking had.  But comparing him to Einstein in terms of influence/impact on the field of physics? I think he will be forgotten in time..in that respect.  Great example of human determination in face of almost overwhelming physical limitations I feel though..and I always felt a sense of admiration for him in that respect.

Ichi

+1
I think comparing him to Einstein is a bit of a stretch too but I still admired him.

I think it is difficult to compare two people and their achievements if they lived in two different time periods. Einstein's theories and  "discoveries" had an impact relative to the time he lived in. So did Hawking's. Think about Leonardo da Vinci. His inventions and designs were absolutely phenomenal for his time, but today, they look somewhat plain.
That being said, I still think Bill Gates is a genius of sorts. Can you imagine coming up with "Windows"? Clicking on a tiny image on a computer screen triggering activity?

[dave500]

theres a coupla icons I click on my wife,usually generates a bit of activity?

[Yamahawk]

That being said, I still think Bill Gates is a genius of sorts. Can you imagine coming up with "Windows"? Clicking on a tiny image on a computer screen triggering activity?

Your facts are not correct, Mike. Windows was well after Apple’s Lisa, and Gates developed Windows after seeing IBMs TopView. He is hardly the father of GUI operating systems. More of an emulator than innovator. And it took Microsoft decades to release a 64-bit OS running on 64-bit hardware that had been in place from many others since the early 90s. If you’d like to cite a true computing genius, Seymour Cray might be a far better candidate.

And Bill Gates STOLE MS-DOS from the creator, and put his name on it...so, he's not quite the fellow we thought... and Windows sucks lol. I have been into computers since the early '80's, worked with CP/M and Dos, back before Windows was ever released, Unix and Xenix were light years ahead and used for business systems for a long time, and have evolved into LINUX and OS X for Apple. WAY better than Windows. I have a Windows computer just to run my Laser engravers, one is an Epilog Sumit built in 1994, so I have to run Windows 2000 on that one, and a Chinese 60watt engraver that I run Windows 7 on because it works better than Win 10... I wish they would program a printer driver for Mac OS X for the lasers, but such is not the case... yet. One company in Las Vegas had a graphic interface for their Full Systems Laser, but they are not in business anymore, or maybe they are, can't remember...
Charlie

[MikeSimon]

Well, I stand corrected. Not that I like Bill Gates much anyway. I just tried to make a point that whoever invented an OS that works like Windows must be some kind of smart guy and able to think ahead of the rest of us.
If all of these guys could be brushed away with smart aleck remarks, one could do the same with Rudolf Diesel and Nikolaus Otto. How about that? And if you don't have anything else to say in a thread like this other than how your wife reacts to your clicks, why do you participate to begin with?

[TwoTired]

Well, I stand corrected. Not that I like Bill Gates much anyway. I just tried to make a point that whoever invented an OS that works like Windows must be some kind of smart guy and able to think ahead of the rest of us.

You might like to learn of the Xerox Alto from 1973.  First computer to utilize a graphical user interface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

It also had network capability, work group printing (on laser printers), and remote server file storage capability.  I remember printing documents in New York for colleagues from my office in Palo Alto.  Email to/from sites worldwide were daily routine by 1979 when I joined the group.  The Pentagon used quite a lot of the Altos in that era, as well.  There was no better document creator/manipulator in the world at that time.

While not personally affordable, it was the first personal computer with mouse and GUI.  Nearly every Xerox office Employee had one for personal use.

Cheers,

[Duke McDukiedook]

Well, I stand corrected. Not that I like Bill Gates much anyway. I just tried to make a point that whoever invented an OS that works like Windows must be some kind of smart guy and able to think ahead of the rest of us.

You might like to learn of the Xerox Alto from 1973.  First computer to utilize a graphical user interface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

It also had network capability, work group printing (on laser printers), and remote server file storage capability.  I remember printing documents in New York for colleagues from my office in Palo Alto.  Email to/from sites worldwide were daily routine by 1979 when I joined the group.  The Pentagon used quite a lot of the Altos in that era, as well.  There was no better document creator/manipulator in the world at that time.

While not personally affordable, it was the first personal computer with mouse and GUI.  Nearly every Xerox office Employee had one for personal use.

Cheers,

Gates and Jobs borrowed heavily from Xerox for their computer and OS designs.

[Steve F]

I have always found it amazing how some people feel challenged by others who are obviously smarter than they and then put them down, bully them or make fun of them.

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.

Wow.  You just described a former V.P. of a company I worked for.  EVERYONE was more intelligent that this dolt, EVERYONE, and yet he became a V.P..  Turns out he was nothing more than a head knocker and the Pres. wanted this kind of a-hole running things.  Worst decision ever made, but the Pres would never admit to making a mistake.

[strynboen]

I have always found it amazing how some people feel challenged by others who are obviously smarter than they and then put them down, bully them or make fun of them.

only you vill make a post like that...funny germens dont eksist...