I wonder, do ya suppose that the ‘going smaller and smaller’ until it is learned that there is a limit to how small a something can be is what sends minds like Stephen’s into these odd little rages? I mean, Stephen doesn’t yet want to admit that a smidgen of time and a pinch of energy is a photon. How can he see the start of it all if he still hasn’t come to grips with creation being the start of dimensions time and space? We only sense what has already happened. We don’t even sense a rpesent event. What circuits would it blow in Stephen’s mind if he were shown a future event?!
Well, the big question is whether Stephen is stumped or not. He seems to me to be stumped and to blame something else other than himself, so he goes with circumstances as being to blame. Hence I believe this is how he gives up or feels like giving up. Or maybe he is asking a question but the media jumps on it so as to portray him as an atheist? Or maybe the media is trying to encourage him to give up. There is a lot of going on like this in the present culture of destruction of the west, and to attack a man on a wheel chair would not be far fetched for the Marxists to do.
They pimp and manipulate like that concessions out of people out of nowhere. A scientist’s ego would thus fight the notion that he is manipulable, this is funny, because he is saying he is manipulated by spontaneity and that this conclusion is objective or not manipulable.
As for reading future events, we already know that the cares of the microscopic is reflected in the cares of the macroscopic, and, similarly, the cares of the future are already mirrored in the cares of the present and the past.
So, obviously, the wave/photon/TimeSpace is transmitted from one set to another set of universe, in resonance. Matter is merely a reorganization of this wave in a resisted entropic manner. Matter essentialy is a “slowed up” process following in delay this resonance. THus, what we think is created with our poor sight, might be a process of destruction and resistance against this light and life in the universe, or, alternatively, a fancy that does not warrant any real question, but something to share in the illustration.
Life, frankly, is a set of information and interactions, and it does not need matter per say, it’s “just” words, and such words can become expressed in matter/flesh, but it is much more dramatic.
What bothers Hawkins might be irrelevant to his work in physics, and this is made real by his rant being not coming from scientific conclusions, imo, but more like, you said, getting annoyed at something - a sort of philosophying for a purpose.