What Does Atheist Physicist Stephen Hawking Ponder Most? Women
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Stephen Hawking in 1942.
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking turns 70 this Sunday and in an exclusive interview with New Scientist, he explains his biggest mistake, hopes for future discoveries and the topic that occupies his thoughts most of the time.
New Scientist reports that when Hawking received the diagnosis of ALS when he was 21, it was expected he would only live a few years. Far surpassing that projection, Hawking went on to make notable discoveries in the field of physics with the most famous being perhaps his discoveries involving black holes. Hawking communicates using a computer controlled by twitching his cheek and he is currently looking for an assistant to maintain the system, among other duties, which we reported last month.
New Scientist asked Hawking what he considered his “biggest blunder,” to which Hawking responded:
I used to think that information was destroyed in black holes. But the AdS/CFT correspondence led me to change my mind. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
New Scientist goes on to explain that Hawking long held that information was destroyed in black holes but in 1997 Juan Maldacena created a mathematical shortcut. Using this shortcut in 2004, Hawking showed that information from black holes can escape back into the universe. New Scientist explains that with this blunder Hawking lost a bet to theorist John Preskill.
Stephen Hawking experiences weightlessness for the first time in 2007. (Photo: Hawking.org)
When asked what he would do if he were younger and just beginning his career as a physicist, Hawking said he would come up with an idea that would create a whole new field of research.
Finally, New Scientist and Hawking leaves readers with the subject he thinks about most on a daily basis. Women. “They are a complete mystery,” Hawking wrote to New Scientist.
In regard to his disease, Ammar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre, at King‘s College Londonsaid that he hasn’t seen anyone defy the disease and live as long as Hawking.
“It is unusual for (motor neurone disease) patients to survive for decades, but not unheard of,” said Dr. Rup Tandan, a neurology professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Still, Tandan said many longtime survivors had ventilators to breathe for them – -which Hawking does not.
To mark his birthday Sunday, Cambridge University is holding a public symposium on “The State of the Universe,” featuring talks from 27 leading scientists, including Hawking himself. For 30 years, he held a mathematics post at the university previously held by Sir Isaac Newton. Hawking retired from that position in 2009 and is now director of research at the university’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Hawking achieved all that despite being nearly entirely paralyzed and in a wheelchair since 1970. Since catching pneumonia in 1985, Hawking has needed around-the-clock care and relies on a computer and voice synthesizer to speak.
A tiny infrared sensor sits on his glasses, hooked up to a computer. The sensor detects Hawking’s cheek pulses, which select words displayed on a computer screen. The chosen words are then spoken by the voice synthesizer. It can take up to 10 minutes for Hawking to formulate a single sentence.
Read more Q&A with Stephen Hawking here.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (129)
Legal Immigrant
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:28pmDon’t solve them Stephen!!!!
If they suspect you have? You are done like dinner.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:33pmHawking = major fail.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:06amEveryone knows God created the world in 144 hours
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 5:50pmThis might be the world’s smartest man, but an atheist will never convince me he’s even intelligent to have such stupidity toward our maker.
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:23pmhawking better be pondering his relationship with GOD. if he doesn’t repent and accept christ as his personal saviour, he is doomed to rot in hell. he still has a chance but i dont see it happening. all we can do is pray that he will have a change of heart……………………………….
Report Post »lwnmwrmn
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:44pmit doesn’t bother you just a little that you could spend your entire life saying F— god and then repent on your death bed and spend eternity in heaven…just a little???
Report Post »BFrezza
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:14pmto LWNMWRMN, God knows the heart… If a person spends their life hating and disparaging God and expects in the end to just say “I’m sorry, I believe, now let me into heaven.” they are in for a rude awakening. A person must be truly repentant, not just pay lip service, God knows the difference.
Report Post »Mitch64622
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:26pmLWNMWRMN: I am proud to serve a God who is that merciful. He knows who is truly repents and who doesn’t.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:52pmGod will not be mocked… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNsKzSrQtVw&feature=related
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:08amMitch64622
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:26pm
LWNMWRMN: I am proud to serve a God who is that merciful. He knows who is truly repents and who doesn’t.
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I wonder if you would call God merciful if you had Stephen Hawking’s body. Or perhaps you wouldn’t believe in a god either if you had his mind.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:10amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ecB3ThAmc&feature=related
Report Post »UnPlugged Ed
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:06amHey Georgiavietvet…..
I believe there is a God, and I live my life by the golden rule, i try. But I know a lot of Bible Thumpers that I would put in Hell before Hawking. I despise arrogance, especially Religious arrogance. BY the way… All the little boys and girls in obscure villages who can only making popping sounds and worship lakes and rivers….Going to Hell, right? And Jimmy Swaggert & Jim Bakker….they are in?
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:08am@lwnmwrmn
Report Post »I’m ecstatic over anyone who repents, even on their deathbed. If Hitler on his deathbed had truly repented and trusted in Jesus, he would have stood before God clothed in the righteousness of Christ. That doesn’t downplay the heinousness of what he did. You probably think it does, but it doesn’t, because what Christ did on the cross really was that powerful. Hitler’s sin, and yours, and mine, are nothing compared to the mighty grace of God to forgive, cleanse and restore. I know from experience, because I’ve done some awful things, and if He can forgive me, He can forgive anyone.
neocon1
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:40pmNO
Report Post »he will get a smaller mansion.
Ramv36
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:47pmYou may want to review the caption of the article’s photograph, which reads “Stephen Hawking in 1942”.
Report Post »If he turns 70 this week, he was BORN in 1942. The photo shows a man in his late 20‘s to early 30’s, which if taken in 1942 would mean he was turning about 100 this year.
Just pointing that out if no one else has.
wordweaver
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:57pmMaybe it should read 1992?
Report Post »msaustin
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:38pm@ libertarianforlife You can‘t ’ultimately destroy us’. C’mon, that’s just silly. We have God behind us for one. For another, they keep trying to annihilate the jews, but that’s not working, same God. So all I can say is na na na na na. You can’t get us! You are really not doing yourself any favors by being so angry at such a warm and loving group of people who believe in such a God that would give us His Son so that we can live FOREVER!! Woo Hoo! Now, doesn’t that just put a smile on your face?
Report Post »M_O_Beast
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:23pmIf youre such a warm and loving people then why does “God” hate gay people or in that fact anyone who believes that “He” is just something that somebody made up to fell better about death, or did it to gain control of his intelligently inferior brethren. Think about it, the bible has way to many inconsistences
Report Post »Mitch64622
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:29pmM_O_BEAST: God doesn’t hate gay people. He wants them to accept him just as much as any straight person. You say there are inconsistencies, but which ones are you speaking of. Sometimes people just say that because they‘ve heard other’s say it even though they have never opened up the Bible and studied it for themselves. Let me know which inconsistencies you are speaking of.
Report Post »Stephen
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:13pmM_O_Beast: God only hates one thing and one thing only. SIN!!!
Report Post »msaustin
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:05pmGod doesn’t hate gay people. He doesn’t hate anyone. He is love, He loves. He doesn’t hate Stehpen Hawkins. He wishes no man to perish, hence the sending of His Son. I’m sorry so many people are not good representatives of this, but we’re just evidence of how much we need Him and are lacking Him.
Report Post »conservativewoman
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:24pmNow I know why Michele Bachman will never be president. Because she is a woman, you men think she is evil and crazy.
I’m amazed. It’s the 21st century and American men still have some of the same opinions about women as the Taliban.
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:01pmI disagree. I’m a man and I contributed the maximum to her campaign. She was my candidate and it was never even an issue that she’s a woman. I seriously doubt I’m unique in this regard.
Report Post »nichevo
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:09pmIt has nothing to do with the fact that she has **** and a ***** but that she is a moron.
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:09pmActually, this American Man thinks that, realistically and absent emotion, Bachman won’t be President solely because she cannot beat Obama. (Also the fact she is no longer running for President has much to do with it). I don’t think she is evil or crazy any more than I think Obama is evil or crazy.
Personally, regardless of gender, I refuse to consider anyone evil or crazy absent some overt evil or crazy act(s) or pattern of behavior.
Stating “It’s the 21st century and American men still have some of the same opinions about women as the Taliban.” is a dangerous generalization. Out of the 150 million or so males in America, I guarantee you can find a man who will disprove this premise.
Report Post »You claim would be no different than me saying “I’m tired of young women. They all act like Snookie from Jersey Shore, shallow, superficial, and selfish, every one.” And yes, that statement is true for many women I meet, but to ascribe those characteristics to all women as a blanket statement is not only inaccurate, It’s intellectually dishonest.
caveman74
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:53pm@ conservative woman. By that logic then I must be a racist because I cant stand Obama. Bachman was a little over the top. In a situation where the first black President was over the top, If you want to shoot for the first woman president title you should maybe tone down your campaign rhetoric. Just like what was said on becks radio show a few days ago, we went for charismatic and in your face with Obama and look where we are. It has nothing to do with her gender. The President is not supposed to be a singular person but rather an institution that embodies the whole of the American public.
Report Post »UnPlugged Ed
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:18amI don’t think women are “evil & crazy”, just most of them are irrational & stupid. Most think with their heart instead of their heads. That being said, sure, there are A LOT of stupid men, but when we dwindle it all down, give me a bearded old man ANY DAY!. No, I will never vote for a woman for anything that puts them in charge of Safety, Teaching or Money. PERIOD.
Report Post »robinakilt
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:20pmThis comment will be found to be offensive to many but I don’t care….Snickers needs to hire Mr. Hawking to do a commercial. I can see the slogan now…not going anywhere for a while….grab a snickers! WHAT? To soon? Ok make his battery light flash on his wheel chair..there are you happy now!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:02pmHe never had daughters. They are the missing link in the evolutionary chain.
Report Post »Between amoebas and alimony.
nelbert
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:19pmGee, I guess you took sensitivity lessons from Alan Colmes.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:50amI guess your perception of sensitivity comes from a “class”.
Report Post »That everyone must be taught to be PC by Oprah.
Mo Better
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:00pmOf course women are a mystery to him – he hasn’t had a woman in 50 years, if ever.
God’s thank you for being an atheistic POS.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:21pmwow, just like what Jesus would say
Report Post »dpselfe
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:01pmNahhh, Jesus would just tell Hawking that He didn’t know him, and send him on his way. The good news: Hawking will be warm for eternity.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:25pmHe’s been married twice (1965-1991 and 1995-2006) and had three daughters by his first wife.
It‘s curious to see how nasty people here are when someone doesn’t agree with them. Bill Maher is a nasty person who enjoys mocking people for their faith. I see little difference here in the way you are attacking Mr. Hawking.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:40pmI like the Big Bang Theory…the one on television, not the one he is thinking of…….
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:56pmI am the real life Leanard and there is a real life Penny…There is alot of religous symbolism embedded into the show from the very first episode…The horrizontal stripes on the shirts represent the stripes Jesus took for sin…Nearly every episode has a scene having to do with cleaning representing Christ cleansing our sins…Laundry is the most symbolic on the show and there is a hidden Seal of Solomon built into the fan in the laundry room on the show…The Seal of Soloman is also hidden in the Atom Logo of the show…Nails secured Jesus to the cross…Nails are measured in pennies…Abraham is on the coin penny symbolizing a Link to Abraham…The wine Penny drinks symbolizes my story getting better with age,and Jesus turning water into wine…The Last Supper is also symbolized in the show as they all sit around eating together…The Bare Naked Ladies doing the theme song is also a play on the garden of Edon…Sheldon has used the word lamb on a few occasions as a tip-off to The Lamb of God…Penny says Oh-God alot but it is not used in vain as you would expect but out of reverence…The show is sponcered by J.C.Penneys…after the real-life Penny dumped me prom-night May 1st 1998,I became suicidel…then God started speaking to me…he said the stone which was rejected has now become The Chief Corner Stone…My real name is Aaron…God gave me the title Last High Priest…My Linc to Abraham is with a Penny…My link to the First High Priest is jeanlogocilly…501 blues
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:52pmChrist like?…uses the word forgiveness then later holds his arms out as he makes his sacrifice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saPn8Jm9WvE&feature=related
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:55pmYes and they were wearing the Armor of God too werent they koo koo?
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:57pmIt’s all themed… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGDoWAMbAMo&feature=related
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:31pm@ bad Do you mean koo koo like John Nash that was born in Bluefield W.V. and taught at Princeton?..the guy that the movie A Beautiful Mind was about…because I’m wearing the armor of God… the real-life Penny is from Princeton W.Va the town that borders Bluefield W.V. My armor comes in the form of coincidences strategically placed by God…read this page and see if gives a hint about a beautiful mind… http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/about/
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:54pmAnother reference to A Beautiful Mind and to hillbillys on The Big Bang Theory… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3GZ7Fhw_Mk&feature=related
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:58amAlmost heaven West Virginia… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8&feature=related
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:28amScience means“the study of”…if you have ever read the book of proverbs you would see God encourages everyone to study…God gave me coincedences with birthdates to prove God rules both science and religion….Religion:my mother was born 7 years to the day after Israel became a nation…Science:I was born 7 years to the day after man first walked on the moon…The Big Bang Theory atom logo combines science and religion…you can see it in this hoodie that is modeled after the green lantern t-shirt… http://cbs.seenon.com/the-big-bang-theory-atom-zip-front-hoodie/detail.php?p=361758&v=cbs-thebigbangtheory the green lantern shirt being used on the show is symbolic of Gods light…It is through Gods imagination and his will that we all exist…Do not underestimate the creativness of the creator…I am Aaron“The Last High Priest”…ask God for my credentials
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:50amKnock Knock Knock…. Revelation 3:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUG7JtZSykQ&feature=related
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:36pmAfter the most recent Blaze Articel, I think he had better start pondering Religious Sex Toys as the greatest Mystery.
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:23pmCan this a-hole shut-up about his crack-smokin’ THEORIES!
Report Post »Blackop
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:39pmYou have nothing to contribute here.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:47pmI am comforted by the obvious fact that no one will ever be inconvenienced by reviewing one of your theories.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:25amThe lawn gnomes come to life whenever I’m not looking… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFanG5s01M&feature=related
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:15pm.
Report Post »Naked Women who would have thunk, that was the great mystery……….
HumbleMan
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:03pmI think it’s related to his G-string-theory.
Report Post »FlowerBell
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:13pmAnyone who isn’t you is a mystery. That’s how it works.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:09pmWomen are precsely what the KJB says they are.
Materialist, above all. While man was made from Earth and Spirit, Woman was made from Flesh and Spirit.
All he knows he does not understand Masculine Thought and Feminine thought.
Masculine is in the areana of creation and concepts. Feminine is in the realm of utility and security.
Beyond function, there is also hormones which drive the brain not to mention 10 billion more feminine connections which make them get ahead of themselves and into trouble.
Western Civilization is no longer Masculine and no longer produces. It is purely consumptive Feminine. Therefore economically, socially, and spiritually it is dead, for no human civilization can be sustained.on consumption, it requires Patriarchy.
The reason the Western Mind does not understand this is due to the ethical failure which preceeded the Maternalization of the Western Mind. The conversion of Pat. to Mat. was due to the ethical lapse, or sin, of corrupt Patriarchs seeking free sex, wihtout binders and consequence.
Thus the Family, as the founder of State, collapsed and took everything else with it.
So Mr. Hawking, if you will not read the KJB, read about Masculine Overt Active, Feminie subvert Receptive, or Anode and Cathode. THis is not about two forces that work against each other, but two combined forces.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:21pmMore on this is available from Mens Acton to Rebuild Society (MARS) at Mensaction.net
It is really strange at first and I do not buy the NewAge Myan stuff, but Elder George is a friend.
Ubanized Man is a confused product of messed up Victorianized thought that is not only unrealistic and filled with fear (Man Bad, Woman Good) but that it permeates not just literature and entertainment, but has perverted Law, Courts, and ultimately justice.
The same as the lie of pure Capitalistic Freemarket thought, which rejects the notions of individual, family, and group responsibilities, and causes all fo the abuse that we now are under.
But I digress.
Report Post »conservativewoman
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:18pm@MRSALGAVE2
Report Post »I thought it was women who are in the arena of creation. Well, since your a man, you probably know better, though I have never seen a pregnant male!
msaustin
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:28pmI like what you said here. I find it a very interesting line of thought. I just hope with all this thinking and pondering, there is a balance of humor so you don’t become too cynical. I find in this man’s case, it is too pitiful to mock, however, his statement of not understanding women…………. there is no understanding women, individually, for men. They need only to marvel at our wonderful existance and be eternally grateful to the God who gave us as a gift or ‘help’ to men. Shalom!
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:06pm” It can take up to 10 minutes for Hawking to formulate a single sentence.”
Can you imagine what it would be like to go on a date with him…
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:21pmWe will not be seeing him at any speed dating sessions.
Report Post »JACKW33
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:05pmwe can’t wait!
Report Post »G.E.R
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:00pmI really enjoy how the blaze throws the word atheist in the headline to stir the pot. It just wouldn’t be a story without getting the religious fanatics worked up into a frenzy.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:56pmAt age 70 Stephen Hawking is very near going back to school to learn the answers to all his mysteries. Maybe Carl Sagan will volunteer to be his mentor.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:23pmeh, pssst! Sagan is dead. sorry
back to our regularly scheduled program
Report Post »Blackop
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:40pmYour mind seems to be at half-mast.
Report Post »geomann
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:52pmHe is a brilliant man, but not infallable. His mind works in the relm of experiments and proofs. I just pray that the seed of faith will grow in him before it is too late. It would be fun to sit shoulder to shoulder with him in Heaven as God gives a lecture on cosmology.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:29pmjust goes to show God had the right idea when he created women with such complexities that we keep men thinking about us so much..LOL
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:59pmWomen aren’t really all that complex.
Report Post »LOJ
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:28pmAn intelligent man, learned from a book, but void of spiritual realities that come from the Creator!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:40pmHe feels sorry for himself. He belives HE “IS” a brain wasted. Instead of a precedent setting example of determination and achievement.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:42pm“spiritual” and “reality” may be oxymoronic. A reality can be tested. The “spiritual” has yet to be found demonstrable. Therefor, it is ridiculous to state that any person is “void of spiritual realities” when there ARE no “spiritual realities”.
Report Post »sister1_rm
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:56pm@DEAVONREYE
It’s too bad you feel that way. Talk about demonstrable and un-demonstrable, how about a scientific analysis and definition of the difference between life and death. Science has not yet caught up with faith as far as defining what is alive and what is dead.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:07pm@ sister1_rm
Science cannot tell the fine line between life and death?? WRONG! Simple definition, that always holds true..
If the “thing” under question has active cells – it’s alive
If not – It’s dead
I don’t know where you went to school, but this was pretty much explained to me and my classmates when we were in elementary science class…
“Life” is defined by cellular activity. If the cells and molecules in an item under test have no cellular activity it is a “lifeless” object… If at one time it DID have cellular activity, it is now dead.. If it never had cellular activity, it was never alive to begin with….
Its not that hard, and only takes a little common sense. I can understand you not remembering this, after all, IF you learned it, you learned it so long ago that you have forgotten that basic definition, or you went to a really liberal school that does not educate children.. I am hoping that you just simply have forgotten..
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:28pm@Onikaze – tell that to the U.S. Supreme Court
Oh yes that is right, the same body whose logic was used by Hitler (Buck v. Bell)
Oh yes the same body who cause the Civil War and got it incredibly wrong (Dredd Scott)
The Same body that said people could be driven off their land so that a larger taxpayer could take tennancy, as that constituted Public need. (Kelo v. CIty of New London) [the land remains vacant to this day]
AH! Greed, prejudice, selfishness, and faithlessness, drive the allegedly great minds of man.
Report Post »Marine25
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:10pmPhysicists don’t learn from books, they learn from observation, experimentation and the application of empirical truths of mathematics, chemistry and physics. The speed of light, relative gravity, and trigonometry are not fact because they appear in a book, but because they are observable, demonstrable, and measurable.
Report Post »It is the superticious religious community that is dependent on books, and works of fiction at that.
GollygeeMrwilson
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:27pmCan anyone give me the “Minutepsysics’ explaination of mathematically proving that info can escape a black hole and reenter the universe? Truly a beautiful mind.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:36pmnope.. ’cause I do not know what ‘Minutepsysics’ is.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:25pmNot ashamed… of “being able to go backwards in Time”?
Report Post »Locke and Demosthenes
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:43pmWhat i don’t get is the fact that the photo caption says 1942. Yet there is a CRT monitor, computer keyboard and power wheelchair…in 1942…yea… more like 1972
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:00pm@ wiggins
Report Post »good catch
Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:23pmA man who hates God for his ALS,when he should Praise God for his brilliance and the fact he is 69 years old.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:30pmHe doesn’t hate God….he doesn’t think He exists.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:56pm@Rise – then according to THE WORD, A Fool thinks in in heart that there is no GOD.”
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:02pmThen why spend as much time as he has in the past talking about something he does not believe in?
Report Post »LibertarianForLife
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:10pmBecause morons like you DO believe it. If you could keep your imaginary friends to yourself, we would back off. But as long as you try to put trash in our schools (intelligent design), and place your nonsense in the public square, we will continue to fight. And for that matter, ultimately destroy you.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:13pmIt isn’t all that uncommon for people with disabilities to doubt the existence of God, though many with such disabilities have a great abiding faith in God. I just choose not to judge another’s heart. Peace.
Report Post »totripoli
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:12pm@MRSALVAGE2
Report Post »You call me a fool by quoting from a 2000 year old piece of fiction. Hilarious.
DoBeDwarf
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:06pmphoto from 1942?
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:16pmHere’s what he looks like now.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/physicist-stephen-hawking-seen-office-university-cambridge-photo-photo-164000244.html
Report Post »larrylarrylarry
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:27pmHe looks better than Jesse Ventura and he’s 20 years older. I heard he’s a stud in bed.
Report Post »WILFREDFROMSUNCITYFL
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:34pmThe Blaze is a welcome addition to my regular news intake, but it looks like Glenn could use some more proofreaders. The Blaze seems to make an inordinate number of silly mistakes.
justangry
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:31pm@Deeberj You’re right about women being crazy, however men aren’t clueless. Just every time you women are around us, much of the blood, that’s usually in our brains, has gone elsewhere.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:59pmI saw that…wonder if he has a DeLorean we don’t know about…..
I just don’t grasp how a thinking person can gaze out on a night sky full of stars and not think there is something a lot bigger then us…He may not believe in God but evidently he sees the shadow God casts.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:06pmHey Steven, women are evil, there all done.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:13pmNo, women are not evil.
Women are crazy and men don’t have a clue (or stupid, to put it so you can understand it, being a man and all).
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:20pmDee, that was an evil thing to say.
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:30pm@ deeberj
lol
The only reason us men are stupid is that it makes women leave us the hell alone… LMAO. Just kidding!
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:31pmand stupid…
Report Post »AYoungLady
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:33pmAnd men are not? Romans 3:23.
Report Post »AYoungLady
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:36pmBTW, you spelled Stephen wrong.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:43pmNo, women are not “evil” or “crazy”..they just lack the capability of understanding them……at least that’s what my lovely wife told me to say, who is standing right behind me.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:59pmMen AND women are crazy; just different kinds of crazy…
I mean, seriously, just look around you.
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