Posted on 03/16/2015 1:38:06 AM PDT by lbryce
Stephen Hawking may be getting some Hollywood love for "The Theory of Everything," a biopic about his life that earned actor Eddie Redmayne the best actor Oscar at last night's Academy Awards. But that hasn't stopped the world-famous physicist from issuing yet another warning about humanity's impending doom.
Human aggression threatens to destroy us all, Hawking said during a tour of London's Science Museum last week. The remark was in response to a question about what human shortcomings he would most like to alter. Hawking suffers from a neurological disease similar to Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
A major nuclear war would be the end of civilization and possibly the human race, the Cambridge University professor said. Hawking called for greater empathy, and added that human space exploration is necessary as "life insurance" for humanity. [Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression]
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He would have been more accurate if he said “Democrats could destroy us all” but then no doubt the press would brand him crazy.
Yikes I never thought of that. Seriously, how would anybody know? It’s not like he could ever confirm or deny it. I read he’s pretty much has “locked in syndrome” now which means he can’t move anything so they are trying to resort to implants in his brain to communicate. I don’t know how the hell that guy has survived for so long. This is a disease that kills in 2 years and he’s had it for over 50. The rock guitarist Jason Becker is the same way, he’s had it 28 years so far.
Plus he’s involved with Universities almost all the time so I can just imagine the leftist wackos he deals with everyday.
(Anybody besides me that could care less what this nan thinks?)
Agreed, but the amount of damage we can do advances with our technology. The hope is always that our wisdom will increase commensurate with our technology. I think most of us would agree that for too many of us, it hasn't.
Electric Universe, Plasma Universe, or combinations of forces including some not even being seriously considered.
Cosmology is easily sidetracked by assumptions assumed to be “fact” but subject to revision — red shift, quasars, standard candles, etc., and becomes fancy intellectual acrobatics.
Remember that Dr. Hawking famously flip-flopped on his own theory, headline: “Hawking RECANTS on Black Hole Theory!
Stephen Hawking now says that what goes in to a black hole CAN come out!
Hawking now says that physical singularities DO NOT EXIST after all!”
And just like Einstein, Oppenheimer, (Warmist) Stephen Schneider — their mathematics may be astounding but their politics/human relations are often childish.
Strip clubs, trips to Epstien's Orgy Island, and his mocking of God does not impress me.
Even the most brilliant scientist, chemist, or physicist that ever has lived could only gaze into the slightest scratch of God's wisdom and how He creates and sustains the universe. Great - don't waste time breaking your arm patting yourself on the back. God is not impressed. The Lord loves the broken hearted, the humble, and the simple who come to him by faith.
Anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectives/governments have tried and will continue to try. They have killed millions in the past. I.D. those masters of the universe wannabes, Steve. Otherwise, STFU.
I am lucky to know a very intelligent physicist who also is real world smart. He told me once that any theory should be prefaced with the statement “At out present level of ignorance we assume that.....”
A prophet! A Daniel! No, just another overrated academic who managed to capture the Hollywood imagination through his grotesque discussions of his own heroic sexuality.
This guy is so bright he doesn’t believe in a God who created the universe! It all just happened!
Oh I agree on that, well said.
He would be a brilliant fool.
The beginning of all wisdom is the fear of God.
I second that.
Thanks guys, I haven’t really read any of his books...but he sure is a ‘media darling’ for sad but obvious reasons.
Last time I dabbled in astrophysics was back in ‘92 when it was an easy ‘minor’ in my Ph.D. coursework requirements.
Often the smartest people are also the densest. Without human aggression, there would be no competitiveness, no striving to achieve more, and therefore, no progress. Without aggression, we would all be happy to live in the tropics, picking fruit off the trees and cracking open easily caught shellfish, and rebuilding our huts after every hurricane.
Yep, dark matter and dark energy are essentially lies that are piling up because they don’t want to confess the original mistake. Just like when a child tells a lie, and then has to heap more lies upon it when you ask them to explain the inconsistencies. Pride has taken priority over the scientific method at this point.
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