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Post by questa on Mar 14, 2018 11:28:43 GMT
Stephen W. Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem of human determination and curiosity, died early Wednesday at his home in Cambridge.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 14, 2018 12:19:22 GMT
Not forgetting that he had roles in both The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory.  |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 14, 2018 18:23:24 GMT
and Star Trek TNG....
I remember having my brain turned to mush and dribbling out of my ears as I tried to read Black Holes and Baby Universes....
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Post by questa on Mar 14, 2018 22:00:13 GMT
I like to imagine his spirit not "resting in peace" but flying freely through all the stars and universes, finding answers to his questions... and more questions to discuss with Galileo, Newton, Einstein and the rest of the gang. He would be laughing at the beauty of the way everything fits together, and full of hope for the next great minds, still Earthbound, to carry on exploring Space and Time.
After a fettered life on this puny planet he is now free to dance the cosmos.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 14, 2018 22:04:02 GMT
Most of the French headlines were along the lines of "Stephen Hawking finally free to roam the universe."
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Post by questa on Mar 14, 2018 22:49:59 GMT
It is the obvious metaphor, isn't it? The image is too lovely to leave it in the hands of sub-editors. They have no imagination.
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