How many of the worthy saying farewell to this great mind can describe any of his theories (present company excepted, obviously)? How many copies of A Brief History Of Time remain unread on bookshelves? Science illiteracy is still prevalent in the UK unfortunately.
Damian
RIP
((Sort of) quite fitting he died on the day Einstein was born..)
Ok, maybe that was a little harsh of me. But I was making the point that a lot of people jump on the bandwagon without really knowing what they are talking about. Physics is hard, particularly the type of theoretical physics Prof Hawking studied but my point was that it's fairly easy to buy A Brief History..., put it on the shelf as a sign of learning but it's harder to try to make sense of some of the ideas. I suspect most people simply eulogise him without making a little effort to understand why he was a great thinker.Odd analogy - do you genuinely think that one should be labelled scientifically illiterate if one does not understand the content of a Brief History of Time?
fairly easy to buy A Brief History..., put it on the shelf as a sign of learning but it's harder to try to make sense of some of the ideas
I suspect most people simply eulogise him without making a little effort to understand why he was a great thinker.
I didn't know God was also on twitter. Good tweet by Him at the bottom.More “haters gotta hate”...
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/03/15/2-replies-need-hot-christian-takes-stephen-hawkings-death/