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Considering he's 64 with ALS, he's closer than most to meeting The Architect and getting all those questions answered.
1 posted on 06/15/2006 6:41:02 AM PDT by edpc
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...he also revealed he is writing a children's book with his daughter about theoretical physics.

Now THERE'S a challenging project.

2 posted on 06/15/2006 6:42:55 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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The answer, of course, remains "42".


3 posted on 06/15/2006 6:44:46 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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Above all, he joked, he wants to understand women.

Stick to cosmology. It's simpler...
4 posted on 06/15/2006 6:44:58 AM PDT by JamesP81
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Does this mean they are "Nearer My God To Thee"?


6 posted on 06/15/2006 6:47:13 AM PDT by TommyDale
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He wants to understand women? Here’s a start:

Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words hold my hand
In other words darling kiss me
Fill my life with song
And let me sing forevermore
You are all I hope for
All I worship and adore
In other words please be true
In other words I love you


12 posted on 06/15/2006 6:55:45 AM PDT by Rock N Jones
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We are getting close to answering these old questions: why are we here, where did we come from?"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

We're just as close as we ever were.

We can't even see it.

15 posted on 06/15/2006 7:02:26 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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Above all, he joked, he wants to understand women.

Proof positive that he's finally lost it. Quantum mechanics and string theory are logical compared to women.

17 posted on 06/15/2006 7:07:06 AM PDT by wyattearp (Study! Study! Study! Or BONK, BONK, on the head!)
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"On Tuesday Hawking said the human race should reach for the stars to survive as the Earth is at risk of being wiped out by a disaster."

An important point that is given little attention.

18 posted on 06/15/2006 7:07:15 AM PDT by Sam Cree (Delicacy, precision, force)
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Speaking at a lecture in Hong Kong, Hawking said that despite some theoretical advances in the past years, there are still mysteries as to how the universe began.

Wow. It really didn't take a genius to come up with this statement.
19 posted on 06/15/2006 7:07:18 AM PDT by Antoninus (I don't vote for liberals -- regardless of party.)
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I predict that when we find the key to the "last" door between us and understanding the universe, when we open it we will find........


another door.


20 posted on 06/15/2006 7:07:45 AM PDT by DManA
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Hawkins has been obsessed with the black hole phenomenon ever since he first gained his reputation many years ago. Perhaps, on some instinctive level, he thinks that an understanding of their true nature will unlock a wide range of universal mysteries.
However, I don't think he's done any groundbreaking work since he first burst onto the scene many years ago. This seems to be typical of many great mathematical thinkers from Newton to Einstein. They made all their great discoveries as young men and then seemed to burn out. Perhaps there is something genetic which happens as you age which makes it less likely that you can think outside the box when it comes to genius inspired leaps of logic.


24 posted on 06/15/2006 7:16:58 AM PDT by finnigan2
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He should stop thinking so much and get a life.


25 posted on 06/15/2006 7:19:45 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
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"He is on a six-day visit to Hong Kong and will meet Chief Executive Donald Tsang Friday before heading to Beijing Saturday where he will give a lecture on string theory."

He'll be introducing the Twelve Girls Band.


26 posted on 06/15/2006 7:20:01 AM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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Eminent scientists for hundreds of years have been certain that mankind will not last another hundred years: nuclear war, nuclear winter, ice ages, global warming, AIDS.....
29 posted on 06/15/2006 7:37:14 AM PDT by DOGEY
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The answer to it all is 42


36 posted on 06/15/2006 8:03:04 AM PDT by underbyte (Call them what they are, socialists - They are not democrats, liberals or progressives)
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The closer we get to understanding the origin of the universe, the closer we get to understanding its creator.

It's a good thing!
45 posted on 06/15/2006 8:19:24 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
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We're not that close, scientifically speaking.


60 posted on 06/15/2006 9:49:11 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith. Often invoked as justification for unbelief, in this book modern science provides the basis for an unusual and provocative affirmation of religious faith. A professor of theoretical particle physics at the University of Delaware, Stephen Barr deploys his scientific expertise to challenge the dogmas of naturalistic materialism and to assert his belief that nothing explains the order of the universe better than divine design. To be sure, Barr recognizes that Darwin's work has swept away the arguments of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theologians, who traced the handiwork of God in birds, flowers, and seashells. But the old argument-from-design reemerges with new sophistication after Barr presses evolutionary theory for a plausible account of the origin of what quantum physics demands – that is, a conscious observer – and comes away with nothing but skepticism about the skeptics. Barr indeed relishes the irony of a skeptical logic of random chance that forces unbelievers who balk at one unobservable God to accept, on doctrinal faith, a myriad of unobservable worlds on which the matter-motion lottery has not produced the winning ticket of conscious intelligence. The absurdity grows even more palpable among astrophysicists who avoid acknowledging the human-friendly pattern in subatomic and cosmic architecture found in the observable universe only by theorizing the existence of an infinite number of unobservable universes in which sovereign randomness has dictated other and more hostile architectures. Neither religiously sectarian nor technically daunting, this book invites the widest range of readers to ponder the deepest kind of questions.

67 posted on 06/15/2006 10:00:21 AM PDT by Kenny Bunkport (Left's reaction to "GODLESS": "They haven't hated a book this much since the Bible." (pissant))
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Above all, he joked, he wants to understand women.

A better sense of humor that most of the professors I've worked with...
but if I were in his physical shape, I'd need some humor to keep going.
72 posted on 06/15/2006 10:06:17 AM PDT by VOA
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we already know: "In the beginning GOD...."


84 posted on 06/15/2006 10:26:53 AM PDT by CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN
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