One of today's news item: Stephen Hawking is ill.
If you have never heard of Hawking, you live under the rock in the world of science. He is one of the most accomplished scientists of our times. He is comparable to giants such as Einstein, Newton, Gallileo and all that. Yet he is paralyzed. Thanks to technology that he is still able to talk and write.
He is most famous for writing books for the layman on cosmology. A Brief History of Time is a must read! It is easy to read and I find it so interesting! There are now full-colored illustrated versions of this famous book.
His professional works are of course only understandable by experts... Besides Brief History of Time, he also collected and wrote commentaries for famous works from other all-time important mathematicians in God created the integers. It shows that Hawking has such enthusiasm toward (pure) mathematics, although he is generally considered a scientist.
Though this 1000+ page book is not for beginners, it is a collection of classics. Not many people understand all of it.
Understanding is one thing, able to teach it to another is a higher-level achievement. As a person with disabilities, Hawking is even more amazing.
2 comments:
Mr Hawking also says to go to Mars.
Go to Mars? it's too far and it is so not like when Columbus sailed toward "India." There is no way we will ever make a colony out of Mars. No water, no air, nothing but a bit of ice.
Joe, I have a favorite Stephen Hawking quote "para-phrased" of course. He has explained the origin of the universe right up to 1/2 a second before it all "fired up".
Here's a quote: "Stephen Hawking has said, in his writings, "The actual point of creation lies outside the scope of presently known laws of physics."
The God Particle.
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