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A very impressive man.
Reminds me I should try to finish a [i]Brief History of Time[/i]
Amazing man. Seemed to just ignore his physical set up and over achieve anyway.
Aww man. He was given a life expectancy of 2 years at 22. It's like he was meant to stay a long time to impart his knowledge.
Amazing.
🙁
Bloody hell.
An amazing man that lead an amazing life.
Sad news
Bugger. A great mind.
That’s so sad. A really amazing person in more than a few ways.
All things considered more than a decent ‘innings’ too.
RIP - The Man, The Genius, 'The Commodore'
damn......
A giant in so many ways.
And someone that no-one, not even on here, will hear the news and say 'Who?'
Rest well Stephen.
A man with a legacy mere mortals would be envious of.
Sadly he was one of those I feared might pass at any time 🙁
Hopefully enough minds have learned enough from him to build on his work (and indeed his attitude and behaviour) to make this world a better place.
RIP
He ran one of my friends over in his wheelchair in a park in Cambridge. On purpose. So for that alone I applaud him, never mind all the science stuff.
Just read the news, very sad.
If there was one person who embodied what you can achieve despite adversity it was him. His work will influence us for many generations.
very interesting discussion on the radio, Carlos frenk suggested he became an amazing communicator because he couldn't communicate. With no capability to create screeds of paper and equations, and with explanations being almost painfully slow to generate and listen to, he had to express his ideas and concepts as concisely as possible and as a result became one of the best communicators of all.
Very sad news.
But look at what he achieved. Changed our understanding of many things.
Genius is often overused, not in this case.
[i]thomasthetankengine wrote:[/i]
Amazing man. Seemed to just ignore his physical set up and over achieve anyway.
From a comment on FB "however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up." - excellent advice I need to be told more often myself
(full quote is "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up." - more at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/best-stephen-hawking-quotes-quotations )
Hawking certainly followed his own advice - nobody could possibly suggest he didn't succeed awesomely.
Also from a comment on FB, somewhat appropriate that he died on Pi day
Presented my PhD research work to him at Cambridge a couple of times. Good science communicator, and I think his work on black hole thermodynamics is important. But I also think that his physical condition gave him a lot more recognition than his contributions to Physics. You might like to know that there was always a one-year internship for aspiring graduate Physics students to work with him on technical things like manuscript preparation etc, as well as his nursing staff.
Not much mention of Jane, his first wife, nor his second.
In my current role, away from Theoretical Physics, I worked in a potential treatments for his disease, ALS.
EDIT: Aside from my own PhD supervisor (of course), my favourite Physicist is John Bardeen
Last year I was going to take my son to see him speak as he was receiving a prize at the Charleston festival. Sadly he was ill so unable to attend but his daughter Lucy and his great friend Kip Thorne stepped in. She gave a wonderful insight into the man that was her father and Kip was brilliant talking about their work together and the shared vision they both had about where they thought their work would lead. It was unfortunate that he couldn't make it but the insight we had into his life and work was probably as good as we could possibly have wished for.
Genuinely saddened by the news.
He was trapped on Earth in a body that didn't work properly but his mind freely wondered the universe. He strode among the stars and then was able to communicate their secrets with the rest of us mortals back on Earth.
A truly inspirational figure. RIP