Posted on 03/14/2018 6:40:06 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Last photographs of Stephen Hawking emerge showing him enjoying a night out in Mayfair as his children pay tribute to the professor's 'brilliance and humour' after he dies peacefully aged 76
Professor Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76 - more than 50 years after he was given just two years to live.
The world's most celebrated scientist passed away peacefully at his home in Cambridge this morning after a long battle with motor neurone disease, his family has revealed.
Today the last pictures of Professor Hawking emerged and showed him out enjoying dinner in Mayfair with friends just before Christmas last year.
His children, Lucy, Robert and Tim said in a statement: 'We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years
'He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever'.
They also said their father's 'courage, persistence, brilliance and humour inspired people across the world'.
Professor Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 when he was 21 and he defied medical experts who said he would be dead within two years.
In the following 55 years he became the world's most famous scientist since Albert Einstein for his work exploring the mysteries of space, time and black holes despite being wheelchair-bound and only able to communicate using a computer and his famous voice synthesizer.
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RIP Stephen Hawking
'We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever'.
Is it just me or does this statement sound strange? Where's the "He was a great dad," and "We loved him"? Makes me wonder what kind of dad he was.
I know he was anti-religion but he wasn't the first impaired person to be like that. Sometimes these people aren't so much atheists as they are people who are angry at God.
First professor science and now this. How is Sheldon holding up?
He was in a wheelchair all his life, and spent most of it giving lectures.
He was not the “pass the football” kind of dad. Suspect they were more or less used to it.
That egghead was not born he was hatched!
Hawking was very famous for his books, and for the adulation the god-haters gave him.
But even the sites I could find discussing his work showed that he was proven wrong about quite a few of his theories, and then would be given another honorary degree right after being proven wrong.
His kids all seem very successful professionally
Their mother ( first wife) was dedicated to their father and saved his life
“enjoying a night out in Mayfair”
And they know this how?
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I loaned out your book and never got it back,, ?
Hawking, a leftwing socialist, was an adamant believer of Goebbels’ scam of man-made global warming.
He also believed free market capitalism was evil and a threat to America.
In light of the above beliefs in such false propaganda, one must question his “science”...
I don’t get why it seems go be a big deal.
Let Muslims be that up in arms about a “non-beliver”.
Now it is between him and God. Hopefully it turns out for the best.
Don’t know how true it is, but I’ve heard rumors he had lost all ability to communicate (locked-in syndrome) since the at least the late 1990’s and his family had the University he was affiliated with essentially just been using him as a stage prop for publicity and to keep the gravy train flowing. All his books and papers were being ghost written by interns at the university and his “speeches” were just programed into his voice synthesizer.
I saw Stephen Hawking drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's, and his hair was prefect.
To me, there will always be the Hawking that blew my mind with A Brief History of Time and led me into other books like Hyperspace and others of the same genre as a kid.
The later in life Hawking really sold that earlier one out. He became like DeGrasse Tyson, and thought we needed to know about things he knew little about. He forgot the science and went for the dollar bills and fame.
For me, it’s like the guy that met a childhood hero, only to regret it.
This is the winning post on this thread. All others should move on. His non belief is something I would imagine he’s dealing with right now.
Ironic for pro-Euthanasia science worshiping folks...
You know what? That seems totally plausible.
He really didn’t put out anything past the mid 90s, at least nothing like he did before.
But who knows? He wasn’t expected to live as long as he did, so he could have defied expectations here as well.
I’ve seen people lacking any charity to him as a dead person because of his public staements. For all we know, he’s sitting with Jesus now.
Stephen Hawking illustrates how people with strong expertise in one field are often no better informed than anybody else in other areas. His doomsday environmental pronouncements, his speculation about aliens, and his call to colonize other planets could have just as easily come from any random crackpot.
However, his contributions to cosmology and theoretical physics is solid (though I'm sure that there are plenty of lesser-known people who made equal or greater contributions), and I appreciate his effort to make these theories understandable to the general public. It's also hard not to admire anyone who managed to live such a productive life in spite of being completely incapacitated.
Classic ad hominem fallacy. Oppenheimer was a Communist sympathizer and Wernher von Braun was a Nazi. Yet atomic bombs still explode and rockets still fly.
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