He's been dying for years, but he's lived so much.
I'm just glad that he was able to live as long as he did.

I will pray for him.

Didn't his wife get mad at him and leave him stranded in their garden to get sunburnt?

>>3978933

He'll be laughing at you (via his voicebox)

Meh. With enough effort and funding I could be just as great as he is.
I'm depressed and have social anxiety though.

Go Stephen!

How the fuck do people like Steven Hawking come up with their ideas? You can't imagine what goes on in his brain

>>3978933

Yep. You will do something meaningless to make yourself feel better because you're supposedly helping him. Hypocrite.

He was supposed to die about 35 years ago.

Very cool guy.

>>3978933

Hawking is the biggest Atheist on the planet. And if anyone has a right to disprove God, its that genius motherfucker right there

>>3978946
Good luck with that, brobot.

>>3978933
You are a faggot.
Possibly unoriginal.

Do you people actually know anything about his work? What kind of physics background do you have to be able to evaluate his accomplishments?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30308676/

He's sick, but he could make it.

He's lived for quite a while with a disease that can kill you after a few years. Indeed it will be a tragic event, but not an unexpected one.

But don't assume he won't be replaced. Hawking was a genius, but there are other geniuses out there too. Like that asian kid that entered university when he was 8. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yoo-geun)

>>3978979
Fuck you I'm a fucking genius. I'm just lazy.

What exactly did he do though? Came up with a load of physics theory on black holes that mean what exactly? None of it has any practical value its just pretentious physics bullshit. Physics only exists because we allow it to

>>3978977
>>3978969
>>3978956
>>3978945

Didn't get the joke
>sjdgihsdgsdgsdh

>>3978969
He's hardly the biggest atheist.

I remember seeing a quote from him saying that in reaching a full understanding of nature, we will find god.

Looking at his physics he's really nothing special. The only reason you know of him is because of his disease and because he wrote some popular science books. There are men and women of his caliber in almost any university.

worthless husk of a man who played mindgames his whole life

>>3979002
Then his death will be of no importance.

>>3978969
yup, that's why we're keeping him in Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Clap for tinkerbell!
This guy has to pull through!
Not only is he fucking brilliant, but the man's got a hell of a sense of humor too.
He has the Stephen Hawking action figure from his guest appearance on the Simpsons on his desk, for God's sake. He's the smartest fucking man alive and he still doesn't take himself too seriously.

I don't think Hawking believes in God, but he's not hostile to religion at all.

You can't really argue about whether he was an athiest or not because I doubt any of us can grasp the idea of God on the same level as him.

Brilliant cripplefag. /salute

>>3979004

>I am a 17 year old physics student DERP DERP DERP

>>3979004
You know absolutely nothing about Hawking or physics. What makes you want to speak your mind with such ignorant conviction?

Putin is 100x more a man than this shrived raisin.

>>3979056

>I'm from America and don't know shit about cutting edge science

>>3979054

Stop. Now. Don't initiate another religion thread. Stop this shitcycle.

he's given lectures at the fucking vatican, of course he's not a religion-hater.

He's a fucking legend of our time, he probably knows more about the universe then we will fully understand in the next ten years. He's not going to care about shitty religion vs atheist wars.

When he dies it will be like when the pope died to sciencefags.

And he was a NICE FUCKING GUY too. Did you guys ever hear the story of how Jimmy Carr, the comedian, sent him a fake letter pretending to be a disabled boy, and Hawking replied back to it personally and very inspirationally? It was such a nice gesture that it made Jimmy Carr feel guilty and tell the story during a show.

Hawking is awesome.

>>3979129
Indeed:
http://mchawking.com/includes/press/latimes.html

>>3979129

Thanks, just watched this. Nice segment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2CdB9-JUQk

get off this guys dick yo

dude is a mechanized monster

lol @ cripples

>>3979129
This is a complete fallacy. Jimmy Carr is not a comedian.

If I can be a quarter of the man Stephen Hawking is, I will have fulfilled my goals for my life and then some. I am clapping for tinkerbell!

You get to be a legend by being wrong about everything?

>>3979204

Looks like a little lost /b/oy wandered in. Do you know where your mommy is?

PROTIP: Quite close to my balls.

>>3979195
>>3979204

- got lost on their way to /b/

Meh, most theoretical physicists would disagree with you OP. He's most notably recognized for his studies on black holes and proposed Hawking Radiation, but there are many other physicists that have contributed much more to the field than Hawking, such as Feynman, Weinberg, etc. Still, if he's going down hill (relatively speaking) then that's a shame, he is a brilliant guy.

hawking is almost as revolutionary as the Beatles on the moon..... with George Michaels

I read an interview...or saw one, I forget - with him and he said if he hadn't gotten ill he probably wouldn't have ever done the stuff he's famous for; being ill gave him time to just sit and think, doing nothing else.

OP look up Edward Whitten.

Described as "The worlds cleverest man" and "Einsteins successor".

That man is also a genius.

>>3979231
And least she will be able to walk away when she's done.

>>3979284

Not when l'm done with her!

>>3979110
>I'm a britfag who thinks my little island is still the center of the world even though it isn't 1902.

>>3978942
He has since filed for divorce from her.

Apparently she has fractured his wrist by slamming it into his wheelchair, gashed his face with a razor, let him slip below the water line during a bath and ensured water entered his throat, and left him outside on a hot day to get a sunburn and heat stroke.

What a bitch.

>>3979284
Ok, now see that was genuinely clever. If only I could believe that
>>lol @ cripples
was an intentional set-up for it...

>>3979308
Maybe he should have stood up for himself.

>>3979280
That guy's brother is a producer of House.
How awesome is that?

>>3979341
I chuckeled.

>>3978946

>I'm depressed and have social anxiety though.

Shit man, you have it bad.
Hawking is praying for you, you poor soul.

>>3979305
It's the centre of the UK's world maps.

>>3979341
Ladies and gentlemen we have a winrar.

He was socially adept in his youth and was reportedly very popular with women.

>>3979372
It's in the centre of every world map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winkel-tripel-projection.jpg

he has motor neuron disease and everyone is all OMG WTF STEVEN HAWKING IS SICK??!?!?

Shame though, I'm frankly amazed he lasted as long as he did/has (not checked the news in a while)

>>3979397
That's because the people who decided where the prime meridian would be were British.

>>3979397
well actually the bight of benin is. anyway, the prime meridian like all lines of longitude is arbitrary.

wait do we mean any more sick than his crippling paralysis? or his impotence?

All my Professors at Princeton say Hawking is a quack, and if it weren't for his condition he would never have gotten to where he is today.

>>3979397
The center of the world map is the Gulf of Guinea.

>>3979431
Impotence, they said. Ha ha ha.

>Prof Hawking, who speaks with the aid of a voice synthesiser, has three children and one grandchild.

>>3979442
When people say that, the proper response is to say:
"At least he's not an asshole"
And if they respond with
"At least I can wipe mine"
Then buy them a beer.

Being wheelchair bound and paralyzed brings a lot of suffering, i know i wouldn't like it.

>>3979458
And he was cheating on his wife, while paralysed.

>>3978913
>Men like Stephen Hawking don't come along very often, we will probably not witness another genius of his calibre in our lifetimes.
i dunno, witten is pretty damn smart.

>>3979032
>>3979216

Go go tinkerbell

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6594821.stm

There aren't many men that look that awesome in zero-gravity

>>3979882
Haha oh man, he looks cute and really happy there.

Ah, do you not see my naive friends? Try to follow my logic if you can. I know it's hard but give it a go anyway:

1. He is in a wheelchair
2. He is a retard
3. All his theories are retarded
4. You believe what he said
5. You are retarded

You are all fucking cunts.

>>3980012
No, it would appear that you are the retarded one here Brosiah.

>>3980051
Get back to your bible

I like him because he is a slap on the face of all social darwinists. Eugenics sucks and you're all retards.

>>3980061
Bible? Nice try idiot.

hawkblawks

if he is so clever why is he in a wheelchair

>>3980089
YEAH HE'S SO SMART
WHY CANT HE WALK IF HE'S SO FUCKING BRIGHT EVEN RETARDS AND TODDLERS CAN WALK
HUH NERDS WHAT NOW?

>>3980073
Social Darwinism has nothing to do with Eugenics you idiot. Hawking would do well in social Darwinism (and he did, he's rich and famous) because it promotes intelligence, not physical capability. The stupid die, and smart survive. Except now the stupid get welfare instead of dying.

its ok, he will be obsolete once AI surpasses him

>>3980137
Exactly. And that is why he is dying.

if he spent less time in his office working on sums and more time out in the sun he probably wouldn't have turned so mental

enuff said,
now bring on the
LOL

>>3978969

he already has. its called a hawking hole.


>>3979442

good thing they are teaching people on 4chan, and he is fucking stephen hawking.

let me know when one of your professors gets a paradox named after them.

GOODNIGHT SWEET PRINCE

blucx

>>3980290

Not to mention he has Hawking radiation named after him (the theory that black holes are slowly losing mass over a long period of time, atom by atom).

What else has he attached his fuck-awesome name with? Hawking = THE NAME OF A GODDAMN SUPERHERO

ITT: idolisation

>>3980321
That is bullshit for a start. It is coincidence that his name is Hawking.

>>3980322

idolatry?

0/0.

Hawking is awesome. I wish him well ;_;

ITT: Kiddies too self-absorbed to respect another human being, even one undoubtedly greater than they could hope to be.

i have so much respect for this man afds;jkl
i attribute my interest in physics to him almost entirely
he will be missed

ITT: Robots stand up for one of their own

Interesting fact: Hawking went to the same college at Oxford as Bill Clinton and the guy who shot Rasputin.

I really hope he pulls through, partially for selfish reasons - he's accepted a visiting position at the Perimeter Institute where I live and I was really hoping that I might get a chance to see him there sometime.

OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO HAVE SOME GOOD IDEAS, HE'S IN A GODDAMN CHAIR ALL DAY DOING NOTHING ELSE. WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO OTHER THAN THINK. I don't think he was all that smart; I just think he had all the time in the world to think about shit.

>>3980321
technically they don't lose it atom by atom, but energy leaks out. It's just the mass is being converted into energy and things like neutrinos are able to escape a black whole which is why they are potentially able to lose mass.

>>3980967
That's a bit unfair and a logical fallacy. It's not the chair: it's the person. The Thinker has been sitting in contemplation for a hundred and seven years and he's come up with diddly shit.

>>3981088

He is also made of stone.

Stephen Hawking is fucking stupid. His theories are senseless.

>>3981102
And Hawking's made of circuit boards. So what?

one of the funniest scenes in family guy

hahaha

>>3978913
My grandma died of the same disease that he has. She went from perfectly healthy to dead in about 5 years, which is about normal. This badass motherfucker has been fending off death for decades. He deserves kudos for just that, and then add on the fact that he's God Tier among physicists and that makes him one cool dude.

>>3979245
Feynman was the /b/tard of physics.

>>3979308

God damn what a bitch indeed

Hawkingblox02148212

>>3981088
He's a statue...

>>3978953
Think about it. They don't have much of a life so they THINK. a lot.