Pretty forlorn hope, considering that Africa seems to be devolving at present.
I wish them the best. Some great scientists have been African or of African descent, so there must be more to be found, if negative cultural and economic factors can be overcome.
As I like to point out, Thomas Sowell, America’s greatest living intellectual, is black. Nothing more need be said.
Why?To get more of this Anti-American bilge?
African Nobel Prize Winner says HIV Created in Lab for Biological Warfare
There were a few stories on FR about Wizards in Nigeria shrinking male genitalia.
Perhaps Mr Hawking should start there?
Obviously Mr. Hawking has not listened to Dr. Jeremiah Wright on Yoruba Mathmatics and African Logic or Bantu Physics. Mr. Hawking is obviously a captive of European thinking and does not understand this different African thinking.
Obviously Mr. Hawking has not listened to Dr. Jeremiah Wright on Yoruba Mathematics and African Logic or Bantu Physics. Mr. Hawking is obviously a captive of European thinking and does not understand this different African thinking.
Correcting typo.
Lot’s of geniuses in Zimbabwe waiting to be discovered I am sure. sarc
Looking in one of the greatest places on earth. Moneywise anyway.
Even brilliant minds can occasionally go off the rails...
Steve, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the Einsteins (of whatever hue) got the hell out of there while the getting was good.
Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning - According to Turok, who teaches at Cambridge University, the Big Bang represents just one stage in an infinitely repeated cycle of universal expansion and contraction. Turok theorizes that neither time nor the universe has a beginning or end. It's a strange idea, though Turok would say it's no stranger than the standard explanation of the Big Bang: a singular point that defies our laws of physics, where all equations go to infinity and "all the properties we normally use to describe the universe and its contents just fail." That inconsistency led Turok to see if the Big Bang could be explained within the framework of string theory, a controversial and so-far untested explanation of the universe as existing in at least 10 dimensions and being formed from one-dimensional building blocks called strings. Within a school of string theory known as m-theory, Turok said, "the seventh extra dimension of space is the gap between two parallel objects called branes. It's like the gap between two parallel mirrors. We thought, What happens if these two mirrors collide? Maybe that was the Big Bang."I sure am glad that we have "Einsteins" like this guy to explain the universe to us ignorant slack-jawed yokels."In our picture, there was a universe before the Big Bang, very much like our universe today: a low density of matter and some stuff called dark energy. If you postulate a universe like this, but the dark energy within is actually unstable, then the decay of this dark energy drives the two branes together. These two branes clash and then, having filled with radiation, separate and expand to form galaxies and stars. Then the dark energy takes over again. It's the energy of attraction between the two branes: It pulls them back together. You have bang followed by bang followed by bang. You have no beginning of time. It's always been there."
"...it means that time runs forward for a while. Then there's a random state without an arrow of time, then time runs backwards, and then time runs forward again. That's the bigger picture: We're still very far away from understanding it, but that would be my bet. But my main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics."
Well, he’s a smart man. He went to Cape Town, not Bongo City. What does that tell you?