Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76
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Yes. Reports were that he was given 2 years at age 21. He lived for 55 more years.
My 10 year old son read a book and did a report on Stephen Hawking this year. He really enjoyed it and it confirmed his goal to be an astrophysicist some day.
PS: My kid is a nerd, but I love when he's passionate about things other than video games.
PS: My kid is a nerd, but I love when he's passionate about things other than video games.
Well I guess this answers my wondering:
When Hawking set out to do his calculation, his disease had already made it impossible for him to write out long equations by hand, and he was forced to do it all in his head. That inspired him to think about things in a totally new way—to think not in numbers but in shapes. In geometry. He saw, in his mind’s eye, how event horizons affect the entire space-time they bind—he saw how they determine the symmetries of the whole space-time, which in turn determine what we mean by a vacuum and what we mean by a particle. He saw this grand, global picture, which changed everything, and he attributed it, in part, to his illness, which he once said was the best thing that ever happened to him.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/stephen-hawking-is-still-underrated/555590/
My MIL that I never met died of ALS 20 years ago. From what my wife has said her mind was always 100% there. Her body on the other hand broke down fast and she passed after a couple years.
