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Stephen Hawking: Human Aggression Could 'Destroy Us All'
Live Science ^ | February 23, 2015 | Tanya Lewis

Posted on 03/16/2015 1:38:06 AM PDT by lbryce

Stephen Hawking may be getting some Hollywood love for "The Theory of Everything," a biopic about his life that earned actor Eddie Redmayne the best actor Oscar at last night's Academy Awards. But that hasn't stopped the world-famous physicist from issuing yet another warning about humanity's impending doom.

Human aggression threatens to destroy us all, Hawking said during a tour of London's Science Museum last week. The remark was in response to a question about what human shortcomings he would most like to alter. Hawking suffers from a neurological disease similar to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

A major nuclear war would be the end of civilization and possibly the human race, the Cambridge University professor said. Hawking called for greater empathy, and added that human space exploration is necessary as "life insurance" for humanity. [Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression]

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To: Zuse

“Hawking now says that physical singularities DO NOT EXIST after all!”

So that means the Big Bang, which started as a singularity, can’t be true.

Either way, the theory is not self-consistent. One singularity explodes, creating a universe, but then all the other singularities suck up matter and energy into an inescapable gravitational pull. Seems like a singularity behaves however a physicist needs it to in order to make their theory work.


41 posted on 03/16/2015 4:09:56 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Moltke; All

I only found out about the Electric/Plasma Universe theory a few weeks ago. There lots of videos/lectures on it on youtube. You won’t find it on wikipedia because establishment are trying to shut out dissent. Its amazing how they’re so closed minded. Its as big an eye opener as when I moved from Left to Right


42 posted on 03/16/2015 5:24:11 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Boogieman

He should upgrade to Barry White 2.0.


43 posted on 03/16/2015 7:13:26 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: lbryce

Any proof he’s not “Weekend at Bernie’s?”


44 posted on 03/16/2015 8:51:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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To: Moltke; All

https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/about/syn/
Proponents of the Electric Universe suggest that there are no isolated islands in the universe. All objects in space, from subatomic particles to galactic clusters, are connected by manifestations of the electric force acting in real-time.

This is quite an eye opener. Almost as big as when I moved from Left to Right


45 posted on 03/17/2015 12:29:49 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: 4rcane

Sounds interesting - will look at it later.

So they guy that thought up the “ether” was right?!


46 posted on 03/17/2015 12:52:34 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: 4rcane

Thanks - I’ll take a closer look when time permits.

For now, I guess I’m adhering to the (so far) known interactions (in descending order of ‘reach’, reciprocal to ‘strength’): gravity, electromagnetic force, weak force, strong force. That covers a lot of the observed phenomena by much experimental back-up.


47 posted on 03/18/2015 1:02:32 PM PDT by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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