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Pt 7 of 8 The Story of Everything By Stephen Hawking.

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Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific career spans over forty years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include the runaway best seller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestsellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
Hawking's key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein--Hawking radiation).
Hawking has a neuro-muscular dystrophy that is related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition that has progressed over the years and has left him almost completely paralysed.

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  • By the time we would start to build these interstellar ships to spreads ourselves, aliens will make the first contact, congratulates us by becoming a truly space age civilization and then tell us that we cant just go where ever we want and do what ever we want. There's other lifeforms, other civilizations and theres rules and laws in the universe..

  • wow (goosebumps)

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  • humans are fuck... they are not interested to bring world at peace... instead they want to accomplish a mission impossible i.e. conquering Science of GOD

  • @wajikhan1 because humans just like a virus they need to spread out all over and shit and pee and dirt as much as they can, the first things they would built when they arrive to that new planet is a bar and strip bar, after a week or so, when they bore recognize the new surface they start committee crimes for territories, properties and money, mankind are like shit, they have to be graved after the sun collapsed at itself

  • Why the fuck we want to go there huh!

  • We will modify ourselfs. It is in our nature to better ourselfs.

  • we will not be allowed to do any of this. we are moron monkeys and we will be put in our place. simple

  • @metaknight95 Though likely and ironically, these ships would be very large jets.

  • too bad in order to make such spaceships, we would

    1) stop wasting money on wars

    2) stop relying on jet propelled ships.

  • 04:49 "Present-day engineers have begun thinking about the principles of building such a shi* " xD

  • When he says it would take 70 odd years it would only be about 30 relative to the passengers due einstines theory of relativity

  • @nadoeloiskat Nah, they'll just spray the earth with alien bug spray and exterminate the human pests before they settle.

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