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Stephen Hawking, a widely known physicist, sometimes mistaken as cosmetician, died Wednesday after complications due to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a progressive neurodegenerative disease. He was 76.
Coverage at BBC (obituary), The Guardian, Reuters, NPR, and The Huffington Post.
janrinok writes:
It is with sadness that we hear the news this morning in the UK that Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. Diagnosed with a type of motor neuron disease disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in 1964, he was told that he would have only a few years to live. But he confounded many experts and led life to the fullest within his personal limitations.
While he undoubtedly suffered as a result of his physical disabilities, it was his mental powers that set him apart from most of the human race. His book - A Brief History of Time - sold over 16 million copies, but it is said that it was probably read by a much smaller number of people, and understood by even fewer.
I hope that others here will contribute their own memories of the man and his achievements as the following days progress.
Rest in Peace - Stephen Hawking.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @07:29AM (11 children)
Stephen Hawking died on Pi day, March 14 (or, as Americans write it, 3/14/2018).
It should be noted that this is also Albert Einstein's birthday.
It should be noted that Albert Einstein also died at age 76.
Coincidence? I think so.
(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Wednesday March 14 2018, @07:38AM (2 children)
The event of his death, long on the horizon, leaves a big black hole in the heart of the astrophysics community, theoretically.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:10AM
Or a very small one that just evaporated?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:02PM
He made it 50 years past the doctors' predicted event horizon...
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(Score: 1) by slater86 on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:54AM (3 children)
After reading that, I'm starting to contemplate whether god does play dice with the universe?
http://www.hawking.org.uk/does-god-play-dice.html [hawking.org.uk]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @11:39AM (1 child)
Only you can answer the question whether you are starting to contemplate that.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 14 2018, @04:08PM
But observing Slater's contemplation may affect its state.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 14 2018, @03:31PM
According to MIB there's apparently at least a couple aliens playing marbles with worlds.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday March 14 2018, @03:22PM (3 children)
He died on the 13th.
I got to see him speak at the University of Minnesota when I was a teenager, over twenty years ago.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @04:26PM (2 children)
14 March. So says Wikipedia. So says the Universe.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday March 14 2018, @08:52PM (1 child)
Ah, time zones. It was the 13th here when I heard about it.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday March 15 2018, @07:18PM
That was just your time dilation at work.
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