Stephen Hawking, dead at 76: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/14/stephen-hawking-famed-physicist-dead-at-76.html

 

While I disagreed with his politics, he was an amazingly intelligent man who made vast contributions to the scientific community, and mankind. 

Never knew he was British....  No accent at all.

 

2 hours ago, remixer said:

...No accent at all.

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FQFpJVF9FOE

He was a major force in his field and will be greatly missed!

The world is a lot dumber today.

Sad. His mind was completely intact while his body withered away.

Based on some of his political speech i would debate that his mind was intact.

 

15 minutes ago, Zeke said:

Sad. His mind was completely intact while his body withered away.

That's the sad part about suffering from ALS. You stay 100% congnitive, but watch your body just waste away.

 

Amazing that he survived with that disease for so long.  His contributions are among the greatest in his field.  I really enjoyed reading his works.  Hawking did a recent interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson where he discussed what happened prior to the Big Bang.  His simple answer was there was nothing.  No space or time—which we now know are linked as space-time.  He explained it elegantly in lay terms but the basic message was nothing existed.  

Rest in peace