Posted on 03/13/2018 8:56:26 PM PDT by rdl6989
Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, a spokesman for his family has said.
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May God have mercy on his soul.
Peer review of work from a physicist on a ventilator is pretty generous regardless of conclusions. Smart guy, but any claim was accepted regardless of the science behind it. Not cricket to test the guys work you know?
I wrote a novel in which a man asks a ghost about the nature of God. She tells him, "God is a spirit, and Man His means of walking on the earth. He shares your joys and sufferings alike. Make His home a pleasant one, and do it not from fear, but love.” Which, as it turns, out, is just about my entire catechism. Enough to salve my mind regarding all questions eternal, but not enough to make me damn my fellow creatures to eternal hell.
Did you see the fireball?
And because of his lack of faith in Christ, he is certainly not resting in peace.
“Always thought he was WAY overrated as a physicist.”
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He was more a celebrity, most recently he had been on some teen sex-comedy TV series.
My understanding of Hawking radiation is that virtual particles, whose lifetimes are dictated by the Uncertainty principle, can form outside the event horizon of a black hole, allowing one of the pair to exit the black hole while the other is swallowed up.
As a result, there can be a net loss of mass in the black hole. After the fact this might seem pretty obvious but it contradicted the initial understanding of black holes; that is, that once mass entered a black hole it could never get out.
Like many breakthrough scientific discoveries, once they are understood the principles are sometimes simple enough to teach them to high school students, making such discoveries seem less than the breakthroughs that they are.
Toward the end some very strange and upsetting things begin to happen. Hypoxia begins to tax brain function. Where an athlete gets winded running a mile, an ALS victim gets starved of oxygen when processing a lot of thought. Emotion or anxiety even more so. Horrible disease.
He was a brilliant mind. However he was wrong on spiritual things to a remarkable degree.
There are some that say that EVERYONE will be in the presence of God in the end. And quote scripture as well. BUT - for the unsaved, it will be the type of presence that would strike down people back in the OT that looked upon God.
It will be His presence reminding you everyday of the sins you committed, the folly you followed, etc. I have no idea - but I can see where that would be eternal torment. Like one’s spouse constantly reminding you of every little mistake you ever made.
It would be a real hell to base one’s entire life on something, and then always be reminded how wrong you were.
Hopefully he did have a deathbed conversion.
God gave him a chance at that rest, through Christ, and he rejected God and His Son. There is no rest for him. “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.”-Hebrews 2:3
His survival was astonishing.
I experienced ALS up close and personal, I had a serious boyfriend who was struck down by it. Awful disease.
Yup.
Wow.
First saw A Brief Historty of Time as a preteen, when it first came out, and thought that it was an arrogant title. Later read it at 15, and could not put it down all summer.
Feels like an era passed.
In what way(s)? I found him tedious, among other things. Pretentious, among others. Like Paul Krugman, one may be brilliant at some small niche, but completely stupid and willfully ignorant about almost everything else. My little Pekingese has more common sense than he did.
I read his stuff.
Maybe I’m too simple, but his stuff seemed to have holes in it. Not black holes; logical and philosophical holes.
Hawking's situation was unique in just about every way. I could never call him over rated. Perhaps unchallenged in his work, but not over rated.
Oh, was he mad at God?
I don’t blame him really....
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