It's to do with changing his mind on M theory, which he now believes to be right. Apparantly. Big move if it is.
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
i sure wish leading intellectuals in the sciences, arts and humanities would stop ruining their fucking integrity with this whole 'church of atheism' bullshit. somebody should have done Hawking a favour and pulled the fucking power-supply out from his little chair-computer when he was making that statement. there is so much startling arrogance, audacity and unquestioning reliance on the 'power' of science nowadays that it almost makes the church-goers look like a positively rational and empiricist bunch. science is just becoming another faith with people swallowing 'universal edicts' from a cast of non-stop preachers and beatified saints. whatever happened to logical proof in science? you can't 'prove' anything about the abstract and theoretical area of grand astrophysical assumptions.
tl;dr: shut your stupid robot mouth, hawking
tl;dr: shut your stupid robot mouth, hawking
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to be fair the comment has nothing to do with religion. Hawking, like all good physicists, likes confusing people by using the word "god" as a metaphor for certain laws of nature. All he's saying is he now thinks its due to gravity and not some other external stimulus.
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
scientists talking in heavily-laden artistic metaphors... good one
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Kingsley Amis-much?Uzique wrote:
i sure wish leading intellectuals in the sciences, arts and humanities would stop ruining their fucking integrity with this whole 'church of atheism' bullshit. somebody should have done Hawking a favour and pulled the fucking power-supply out from his little chair-computer when he was making that statement. there is so much startling arrogance, audacity and unquestioning reliance on the 'power' of science nowadays that it almost makes the church-goers look like a positively rational and empiricist bunch. science is just becoming another faith with people swallowing 'universal edicts' from a cast of non-stop preachers and beatified saints. whatever happened to logical proof in science? you can't 'prove' anything about the abstract and theoretical area of grand astrophysical assumptions.
tl;dr: shut your stupid robot mouth, hawking
more a fan of martin, if im honest
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pssshSenorToenails wrote:
Kingsley Amis-much?Uzique wrote:
i sure wish leading intellectuals in the sciences, arts and humanities would stop ruining their fucking integrity with this whole 'church of atheism' bullshit. somebody should have done Hawking a favour and pulled the fucking power-supply out from his little chair-computer when he was making that statement. there is so much startling arrogance, audacity and unquestioning reliance on the 'power' of science nowadays that it almost makes the church-goers look like a positively rational and empiricist bunch. science is just becoming another faith with people swallowing 'universal edicts' from a cast of non-stop preachers and beatified saints. whatever happened to logical proof in science? you can't 'prove' anything about the abstract and theoretical area of grand astrophysical assumptions.
tl;dr: shut your stupid robot mouth, hawking
they're theorists not scientists
saying that them assumes are scientists is like saying Christian Science is science
it isn't
scientology
Tu Stultus Es
that tooeleven bravo wrote:
scientology
Why isn't this thread sticky yet?
Done.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
on the hawking thing... i'm actually surprised it took him this long to say it, as he advocates a model of the early universe which includes a very subtle but very very very deep mathematical trick (the wick rotation) which basically all but implies that the universe has no real boundary and hence could not be "created".
explain more please.presidentsheep wrote:
It's to do with changing his mind on M theory, which he now believes to be right. Apparantly. Big move if it is.
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The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
And he probably worded it the way he did because he has a new book coming out next week...Spark wrote:
on the hawking thing... i'm actually surprised it took him this long to say it, as he advocates a model of the early universe which includes a very subtle but very very very deep mathematical trick (the wick rotation) which basically all but implies that the universe has no real boundary and hence could not be "created".explain more please.presidentsheep wrote:
It's to do with changing his mind on M theory, which he now believes to be right. Apparantly. Big move if it is.
The universe exists 'cause it just does.
It's because his old book ended with "for then we should know the mind of God", God meaning the laws of nature. I'm not really familiar with M theory, its something to do with multiple universes all being created by gravity.SenorToenails wrote:
And he probably worded it the way he did because he has a new book coming out next week...Spark wrote:
on the hawking thing... i'm actually surprised it took him this long to say it, as he advocates a model of the early universe which includes a very subtle but very very very deep mathematical trick (the wick rotation) which basically all but implies that the universe has no real boundary and hence could not be "created".explain more please.presidentsheep wrote:
It's to do with changing his mind on M theory, which he now believes to be right. Apparantly. Big move if it is.
This is the same sorta thing as the "God particle" or Einstein's various remarks on "God", I really dont know why Physicists do it.
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
God did not create the universe, says HawkingPhrozenbot wrote:
The universe exists 'cause it just does.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pi … 8#p3302958Harmor wrote:
God did not create the universe, says HawkingPhrozenbot wrote:
The universe exists 'cause it just does.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
My bad.
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One step closer to pilotless commercial planes you think?
Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots
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One step closer to pilotless commercial planes you think?
Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots
I missed that post as well, but that is what I was referencing to. I was just curious as to how this is any different than believing God has always existed, or how it is strange he could ever exist.SenorToenails wrote:
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pi … 8#p3302958Harmor wrote:
God did not create the universe, says HawkingPhrozenbot wrote:
The universe exists 'cause it just does.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
Working Tractor Beam Can Move Objects 5 Feet With Just Light
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 … cts-5-feet
I wonder if this would help clean up the space junk we in orbit?
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 … cts-5-feet
I wonder if this would help clean up the space junk we in orbit?
SillyThe system needs heated air or gas to work, so in its present incarnation it wouldn’t work in space — sorry, Star Wars fans. But it could be used for a variety of purposes on Earth, like biological research or movement of hazardous materials.
After years of theoticians speculating...NASA may actually get this project off the ground:
NASA's Next-Gen Spacelaunch System Could Launch Scramjets from a Massive Railgun
The cost savings alone should help this project along.
NASA's Next-Gen Spacelaunch System Could Launch Scramjets from a Massive Railgun
The cost savings alone should help this project along.
inb4Harmor wrote:
Next-Gen Spacelaunch System Could Launch Scramjets from a Massive Railgun
Holy crap...this is something out of Sci-fi: magnetic field generator used to manipulate a tiny, untethered probe!!!
This technique coupled with advances in real-time imaging technology allows for non-invasive surgery. Although I'm still waiting for the day when we have nanosurgical bots.
This technique coupled with advances in real-time imaging technology allows for non-invasive surgery. Although I'm still waiting for the day when we have nanosurgical bots.
Just saw the space station fly over