Stephen Hawking is due to celebrate his 70th birthday on Sunday
with a public symposium entitled "The State of the Universe"
at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
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I am fascinated by this English fellow Stephen Hawking,
who shares my personal “life goal”:
“ … a complete understanding of the universe,
why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”
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From Yahoo.com
(http://news.yahoo.com/women-mystery-british-physicist-hawking-135814776.html)
When New Scientist magazine asked "Brief History of Time" author Stephen Hawking what he thinks about most, the Cambridge University professor renowned for unravelling some of the most complex questions in modern physics answered: "Women. They are a complete mystery."
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Hawking and I agree on this, certainly...
Here is where Hawking and I disagree:
“The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.
§ From an interview with Ken Campbell on the 1995 show Reality on the Rocks: Beyond Our Ken
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yes but you know damn well, Sir, that it could be true.
And what if it is?
That this universe is ours, for our benefit?
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Hawking has done fine fine work.
He has done mighty theoretical work regarding black holes.
But I suspect him of being a logical positivist.
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Logical Positivism: a philosophy that combines empiricism—
the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge—
with a version of rationalism
incorporating mathematical and logico-linguistic constructs and deductions of epistemology…
this means he believes only what he can see,
but...he also
believes what his head can do with what he sees.
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I dunno if I am right about that. Just a suspicion.
If I am right, I must take him with a grain of salt, his theories.
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Stephen Hawking is severely disabled by a motor neurone disease
known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
Lou Gehrig's disease.
Hawking's illness is markedly different from typical ALS
because if confirmed Hawking's case would make for
the most protracted case ever documented.
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He describes himself as lucky despite his disease.
Its slow progression has allowed him time to make influential discoveries
and has not hindered him from having, in his own words,
"a very attractive family."[
When his wife, Jane, was asked why she decided to marry a man
with a three-year life expectancy, she responded,
"Those were the days of atomic gloom and doom, so we all had a rather short life expectancy."
That was back in 1965. Jane stuck with him til 1991. Then he married his nurse, but that marriage
ended badly…
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Jane said Stephen is an atheist. He sounds more like a Deist to me, when he says,
“the universe is governed by the laws of science.
The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.”
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So he is a Deist Logical Positivist, I think.
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Women are kinda like black holes, sometimes, Stephen, y’know?
Classically, it can be shown that information crossing the event horizon of a black hole
is lost to our universe,
and that thus all black holes are identical
( beyond their mass, electrical charge and angular velocity (the "no hair theorem").)
The problem with this theorem is that it implies the black hole will emit
the same radiation regardless of what goes into it,
and as a consequence that if a pure quantum state is thrown into a black hole,
an "ordinary" mixed state will be returned.
This runs counter to the rules of quantum mechanics
and is known as the black hole information paradox.
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There are black holes at the center of galaxies, I have heard told.
“regions of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape…
called "black" because theyt absorb
all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing…”
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I think I may have given you a clue as to further research on cosmic stuff, like women.
Read your works with a metaphorical eye.
e.g: At the center of a black hole as described by general relativity lies a gravitational singularity, a region where the spacetime curvature becomes infinite.
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Those infinite curves a gal can produce, in mind and body…worth a cosmological treatise…
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Deism and Logical Positivism I eschew. They are for intellectual warriors.
Blake:
“To the Deists” Chapter 3, “Jerusalem”;
“ Man is born a specter…& requires a new Selfhood continually & must continually be
Changed into his direct contrary”
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Hawking:
“If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God.”
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to Nothing.
But Nothingness is the key.
An atheist or agnostic can embrace Nothingness.
Nothing aint nothing. It is a void pregnant with possibility.
It is there at the center of this wild movie
we make of our lives. It is nourishing.
Deep deepest sleep, beyond dreams..
where u go every night...
What does that Hawking know about women?
RRated.
a little bit about women, he can't say they are a huge mystery.
Women are here to stay.
One must never ignore them while theorizing.
phenomenon that Mr.(Sir?) hawking has spent his life
investigating, and at the end of his investigations it will remain
a mystery, but it is ONLY PHYSICAL, like electrons and muons.
the universe is human because
the universe made humanity,its greatest achievement.
Women are women first and foremost.
They will all bow and scrape at his genius.
i hope he has SOMEONE to talk to,
a guy friend, about the chicks.
That this universe is ours, for our benefit?"
If this were true, it would be the end. of. the. universe. This is the argument used by the so-called "wise use" movement in regard to the earth. That God made the earth for man to use, to benefit.
I take comfort in being small, being insignificant, being a speck who gets to have a life and experiences but who doesn't really matter.
Otherwise, there's way too much pressure.
Albert Einstein too?
He had tryst with gals.
I read an autobiography.
Albert had two-affairs +.
Two affairs were with both:
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The daughter and mother.
His alibi isn't on a up/up.
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Deliver us from temptation.
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I read ref his women views.
Maybe? Just misunderstood?
I am not 'into' this astronomer.
Star gazer? I am nor aware of:
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Who knows what for certain.
I saw your new post. heehaw?
I almost ran for the oak woods.
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James. M. E. Organize a OSer?
Call Open Salon dermatologist.
Invite them to WV stripper club?
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If they got itches - Buy Bag Balm.
Baby Jesus wasn't born in W.V..
Angel Gabriel no find a virgin.
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James. M.E. . Let's ask children.
Baby jesu pumps in James M.E.'s
human heart. Heart lodges emotion.
Heart (Greek) is where Life resides.
People may have views. Life's simple?
Who made/created the sunset glows?
Who placed thee ring around a duck?
i take advantage of my miniscule presence & effect
on the cosmos, too...but the universe does not work by
human logic, unless..well, unless it does...then we gotta
delve scientifically into all the weird laws of nature to get
clues to our own being. And yep, that is, argh, responsibility...
( tryster with gals) is fine.
“In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine
would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.”
p. 22 - Letter to Carl Seelig (25 October 1953).
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Deliver us from temptation.
Temptation is secular scientist soup of a universe, which Whitehead
describes as buzzing humming nonsense going nowhere fast.
He a philosopher w/ own theory of relativity. Disagreed respectfully w/Einstein.
“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.” Said he.
Who knows what for certain.
I saw your new post. heehaw?
I almost ran for the oak woods.
The place to encounter trees. They stand guard.
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James. M. E. Organize a OSer?
Call Open Salon dermatologist.
Invite them to WV stripper club?
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If they got itches - Buy Bag Balm.
Baby Jesus wasn't born in W.V..
Angel Gabriel no find a virgin.
Stripper clubs in the new Age will be modest.
Floral prints. Swishing hips hidden under diaphanous dress.
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Let us pay complements for a little knee here & there.
Heart (Greek) is where Life resides.
People may have views. Life's simple?
Very much so…
Who made/created the sunset glows?
Who placed thee ring around a duck?
Same one as made the tiger tiger burning bright in the forests of the Night.
It doesn't help that the technology he uses to communicate
is being outpaced by his condition.
True. But he likes the tech he got, I hear…he likes the voice he got..
Anyway, happy birthday, Stephen.
And I hope somebody comes up with a new way for you to talk to us--we need you now.
We need him indeed.
He said”So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake,
tell him that may be a good thing.
Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
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So versatile in your knowledge and you share it so that I learn a bit here and there.
Yes that is me.but…that is all of us….isnt it?
as a mother watching her little girl turn into a woman
I think females are vastly complex, too- like black holes.
I think so too.
The other thoughts, deism etc. is beyond my grey matter at this time as I am hungry. Though Grace said "feed your head", she may have just finished a nice meal of munchies. Still, you leave us with much food for thought! off for a bite ...
Grace was correct in advising headfood.
Relativity is relatively easy once
You commit the unscientific act of Thought Experiment,
Which is how Albert came up with it to begin with.
Things faster than they seem, timewise. IF they are happening really really fast.
Gravitation is? Built into the world.
Get on an elevator and plummet down.
Same thing.
What’s all this, now?
“being a member of this mysterious tribe is just fine with me. Surely, it beats the in-your-face sexploitation rampant in our culture these days.”
I think somehow …well… I cannot say it…but I shall….
Knowing men, knowing women…
Uh..some of the sexploitation is due to women.
There I said it.
And so what? Do what ya gotta do, right?
Or …?
which is the speed of the brain,
is where things are slower.
How do you “ruin” a planet?
Well..it is relative…you ruin it because no longer will it put up with us.
It will survive.
As will bacteria.
Other stuff too maybe..
But..again…
Is that the best a planet can do?
Tough questions.
A man’s measure, or a woman’s , is in no way qualitatively inferior to an earthworm’s.
Or a cockroach’s. or a , um..slime mold. Or a mushroom! (sorry, artjames)
Sorry, my personal theory.
The greeks said we are the “measure of all things…”
It just might be so.
look forward to seeing you back.
distant planets are a long long time away.
we gotta either
1. go faster than light & get there quicker..or
2.put ourselves into a suspended animation state
and arrive there fresh and ready to fuck up
another planet, is
how i read it................................
is demanding my brains to be quieted ..but..
'sometimes,' and also 'sometimes not' go together well in
a mind creating itself from the ground up, with
lovely suggestions here & there,
like from movies & whatnot,
dames and damsels and delicious abject buoyant vulnerablity,
and all in between,
etc...
yer eatin fudge while stephen hawking cannot chew?
shame on you!
i actually dont know if he can chew, or not.
i am pretending.
as for the black holes, they pull me in...
don't they you? or is it just a GUY thing?
JL: i am just glad you are reading it, that's all.
i would advise u to read the comments if ya wanna comment.
that is what i do once i have posted.
to revisit my brainchild , be it totally intellectually off base
or irrelevant or just...as this one is...
sardonically snipingly sweet...
is not a job i would make my worst enemy
(me) do...
on the , ah, "no hair" theory... re. black holes...
something! well put!
I let it lay out there, unspoken, til you spoke it.
(heavens, yes…talk about a cosmological
Treatise needing to be written…!)
A black hole is, they say, speculatively, a passage to another whole new universe.
you writing came on top of my reading
into Konx om Pax, the law which says:
to be shed of egotistical desires
is to be in perfect harmony with Nature
(if that is what you want)
Do Thou What Thou Wilt
(a race of people with no word for 'god')
and an ethical code
if perfect harmony with nature
is a benefit
an ethical code
with no word for 'god' then
"why it is as it is and why it exists at all"
is word-less too.
but what goes on in a society without these words?
All kinds of grand stuff.
Tell me of one in harmony:
here's one:
If you can celebrate the futile, fatalistic search,
then so much more are you in harmony with Nature.
It is good, Emmerling, to bring up this stuff
(compile and publish).
note: Any thought of god/no thought of god.
note: We do not have attribute good works to god.
note: There is the question of insignificance;
(Stephen Hawkings addressing 'benefit' )
he falters in his estimation unless ...
no he falters: his is bounded universe-think.
“Why, “he queried, “do you suppose the universe was created for us cockroach folk and then allowed so many damned humans to come and corrupt it? After all, God created cockroaches in his image and only kicked us out of Eden when a female roach named Marilyn took a bite out of a piece of forbidden cheddar cheese set aside for a Godly snack and not for us common roaches. Humans, of course, have a hidden knack for building kitchens at a Godly implanted impulse to provide habitation for us common cockroach folk and when we die our souls will each fly off to that great kitchen in the sky. But humans are getting out of hand. Some of them even never learn to cook so their kitchens are almost uninhabitable. It’s a mess. Why did God create humans (and so damned many of them) and made them so useless in a universe created, obviously, for cockroaches?”
I could see he had a point and although I attempted to indicate where he had things a bit mixed up he scoffed. Anybody who has ever suffered the immense disdain of a sophisticated but inebriated cockroach with a nasty sneering laugh will understand, after this philosopher moved away to discover a private place to pee and sleep it off, why I had to undergo several years of psychotherapy to regain my normal hubris.
As for women, are we really such a mystery, even to a man like Hawking? What surprises me here is that no woman has said anything about the mysteries of men, particularly the kind like Mr. Neutron, who seems to have defied its massive gravitational pull and returned from the dense and lightless depths of a black hole.