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RyanDzundza
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there was a BBC documentary about hawking and how he wasnt widely respected in the academic circles
think it might of been horizon not sure, wonder if its true
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Moloth
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| GodWarrior98 wrote: | | passrt2002 wrote: | | enstine is cool but stephen hawking is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better |
Agreed, who needs theories that explain things and make predictions when you have white holes and popularization that also misinforms? |
oh, i assume you must have theoretical astrophysical theories that prove Hawking's hypothesis' false?
i had no idea you were so accomplished. who are you with Cambridge? MIT? Oxford?
i would love to read your peer-reviewed, scientific journal-published calculations.
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josephpalazzo
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| RyanDzundza wrote: | there was a BBC documentary about hawking and how he wasnt widely respected in the academic circles
think it might of been horizon not sure, wonder if its true |
Probably, they were jealous of his bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks... |
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chookrooter
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| Quote: | | Probably, they were jealous of his bestseller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks... |
Umm How many people do you know who have actually read the whole thing?
I've met one, a physicist.
Me? Currently wading through a book called "The Archimedes Codex" ( Codex C palimpsest) So far so good,I haven't reached the maths.  |
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josephpalazzo
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| I haven't read it either, and I'm a college physics professor. So, there you go. But A Brief History of Time was meant to popularize that part of Hawking's research. Personally, I prefer meddling into String Theory, or do some calculations in perturbation theory, Dyson flavored... |
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Naoryunosuke
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I'm not sure if he really considered it a weakness, but he certainly considered it as primitive.
| Albert Einstein wrote: | | With primitive man it is above all fear that evokes religious notions--fear of hunger, wild beasts, sickness, death. Since at this stage of existence understanding of causal connexions is usually poorly developed, the human mind creates for itself more or less analogous beings on whose wills and actions these fearful happenings depend. One's object now is to secure the favour of these beings by carrying out actions offering sacrifices which, according to the tradition handed down from generation to generation, propitiate them or make them well disposed towards a mortal. |
This is from a book called "The world as I see it" by Albert Einstein, it's mostly a collection of his essays on relativity, etc. |
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| Juno22 wrote: | | You don't have to be Einstein to figure out that belief in God is a “product of human weaknesses". That's obv! |
Yeah, it's not like it's relativity! 
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