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"The famous theoretical physicist could be still alive and well somewhere if his mind-bending understanding of existence turns out to be correct."
"Hawking was an ardent supporter of the notion that there could be not just one universe, but perhaps an infinite number of universes. If that idea is literally true, then somewhere in another dimension of what some might call the multiverse, there's a world almost exactly like this one, except that Stephen Hawking is still with us and still trying to sort out a grand theory that explains the totality of existence."
Since I was a child, I've never understood why anybody listens to their Star Trek mumbojumbo. It always seemed like they were just making it up.
"yadda yadda worm holes...universe...vibrating strings in the cosmos...because the space-time continuum defies measure"
On and on. Nobody understands that mess, and I'm convinced that they don't understand themselves. There's not even an experiment that could demonstrate whatever they are on about in their long winded theoretical physics stories about multiple dimensions and whatnot.
They can just make it up, and people are so impressed by that.
I would love to see the Einsteins on this board try to keep up with him in a conversation on theories of Cosmology. Theories are exactly that - unproven ideas. Scientific "fact" comes from testing those theories over time.
Hawking is the man who generated the theories that others will be working on for years to come. Very few are capable of thinking in the original ways he did.
No. Theory does not become scientific fact and never will. Theories are explanations of observed phenomena. Things many colloquially think of as fact, like gravity, atoms, etc. are all "still" scientific theory and always will be.
No. Theory does not become scientific fact and never will. Theories are explanations of observed phenomena. Things many colloquially think of as fact, like gravity, atoms, etc. are all "still" scientific theory and always will be.
Yes - most people misunderstand what the word "theory" means in the scientific sense. This is not a new revelation.
Why don't you tell us what you think Hawking achieved without using the Internet to search. I thought so.
Most of Hawking's theories, including the one he worked on for much of his life, have been proved wrong.
What are you talking about?
Hawkings work has done more to unify general relativity and quantum physics than any other person alive or dead including Einstein. Stop spouting nonsense, you clearly have no idea how science actually occurs.
Always much easier to dismiss as inconsequential what you can't possibly understand.
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