Posted on 05/30/2016 6:04:21 PM PDT by BurgerAndFries
For Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned expert in theoretical physics and cosmology, the success of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a mystery.
Hawking called Trump "a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,” during an appearance on the United Kingdom’s ITV network.
In addition to his scientific work, Hawking, who has a slow-progressing form of ALS, is a vocal advocate for individuals with disabilities. Trump drew criticism late last year on the campaign trail when he appeared to mock a New York Times reporter with a disability at a rally in South Carolina. Trump later denied mocking the reporter and said he had never met him.
During the same television appearance, Hawking urged British voters to vote in favor of keeping the U.K. in the European Union. The much-discussed “Brexit” vote is scheduled for June 23 and a vote to leave the EU would cost Great Britain in terms of its economy, national security and scientific research.
"Gone are the days we could stand on our own against the world,” he said. “We need to be part of a larger group of nations, both for our security and our trade."
He might be smart in his field of expertise, which clearly is NOT elections, politics or economy.
I have a couple of “his” books and they are pretty good; he had a lot of help from others getting them ready for publication. Hawking is also now a global warming alarmist. His shocking appearance makes him look like his mental capacity is severely limited, but he still knows which side of the pop science toast his bread is buttered on. He has morphed into more weird looking Bill Nye the science guy at this point than respected physicist. His area of expertise is very narrow and his opinion on Trump is likely less informed than that of your garden variety leftist movie star.
“Gone are the days we could stand on our own against the world,” he said. “We need to be part of a larger group of nations, both for our security and our trade.”
More and more propaganda for a One World Government.
The ruling class thinks they’re our betters. Put a sock in it, Steven.
People who are superb at one thing are often terrible at everything else.
Hawking is Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered...
In Utopia, people in his condition would be considered a drain on Society and eliminated.
Hawking should have long ago been recognized as being as disabled in the brain as he is in his body and packed off somewhere out of the public eye. I’m astounded that anyone takes him seriously. He can’t even offer free stuff like Obama, so literally all he has to offer is the high-sounding Tardese that falls out of his ugly mouth, yet somehow he’s billed as a genius.
Let me disprove that theorem.
Let the Lowest Common Denominator be x.
Now Donald Trump is y, and Bernie Sanders is z.
zzzzzzzzz.
zzzzzzzzz.
x < y
Ergo your theorem is bunk.
“Ergo your theorem is bunk.”
Wow another one of us who spent the night at a Holiday Inn Express..
Many of the real scientist types got purged ten years ago.
Is this the disabled one who favored the annihilation of Terri Schiavo, or was it the former Superman star, Christopher Reeve?
Trump is not the only thing that confuses Hawking. I still do not understand why this guy is so venerated.
Use your fantastic knowledge to develop a weapon that we could drop in the middle east and kill only muslim terrorists....how hard could that be???
Dark matter is matter moviing faster than the speed of light.
...but you knew that.
I heard Hawking a couple years ago - he was talking that AGW is causing damage and “we must do something.”
This was right in the middle of the coldest, longest winter here in MI ever recorded.
[CLICK] into the dustbin of history.
Hawkings is now a political expert? Everyone has an opinion and Hawkings is free and worth every penny in this case.
(Photo at link).
Leni
...but you knew that.
Actually I subscribe to a cosmic variant of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle..so no I don’t know that.
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