Thread: RIP Stephen Hawking

Why doesn't Elon Musk send Hawking's body on a trajectory to the centre of the Milky Way?

There is a huge super-black-hole there and Hawking could be the first person to actually go across the event horizon and get all stretched out like spaghetti like in the sci-fi movies which would be cool and a fitting honour.

Although it would take a while to get there and the path would need worked out carefully to avoid falling into any stars on the way.

No to be going off on an antgent, however stear clear of black holes, they'll try sucking you in.





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Originally Posted by Looper

Why doesn't Elon Musk send Hawking's body on a trajectory to the centre of the Milky Way?

There is a huge super-black-hole there and Hawking could be the first person to actually go across the event horizon and get all stretched out like spaghetti like in the sci-fi movies which would be cool and a fitting honour.

Although it would take a while to get there and the path would need worked out carefully to avoid falling into any stars on the way.

We have already spent far too much money keeping him alive on the overstretched British NHS already . No need to spend more on a space funeral.
LOL. I have a confession , when I was a member of an extreme Christian fundamentalist cult, we hatted Hawkins. Enemy of God.

Originally Posted by wasabi

LOL. I have a confession , when I was a member of an extreme Christian fundamentalist cult, we hatted Hawkins. Enemy of God.

Maybe he repented on his death bed. The church usually has one or two ghoulish emissaries hanging around when someone eminent is about to croak. When it comes to souls the low hanging fruit clinging to their last breath are the easiest plunder.

Originally Posted by Looper

Maybe he repented on his death bed.

No chance.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...very-1.5907539

https://www.express.co.uk/news/scien...ral-relativity

Surprising thing about this thread is that bsnub had actually heard of and knew who Stephen Hawking was.

Watching this with the main mrs later.

Originally Posted by Looper

Why doesn't Elon Musk send Hawking's body on a trajectory to the centre of the Milky Way?

There is a huge super-black-hole there and Hawking could be the first person to actually go across the event horizon and get all stretched out like spaghetti like in the sci-fi movies which would be cool and a fitting honour.

And if the theory of White Holes creating universes is correct:



It would mean being born again (kind of) in another universe.

Originally Posted by Luigi

It would mean being born again (kind of) in another universe.

......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole

the white hole event horizon in the past becomes a black hole event horizon in the future

Because a thermal-equilibrium state is time-reversal-invariant, Stephen Hawking argued that the time reverse of a black hole in thermal equilibrium is again a black hole in thermal equilibrium.

This may imply that black holes and white holes are the same object.

Other people's theories, not his.

Originally Posted by Luigi

And if the theory of White Holes creating universes is correct:



It would mean being born again (kind of) in another universe.

That diagram is incorrect. Front hole is pink and back one is brown.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Watching this with the main mrs later.

Not a bad film at all.

Attempted to read Hawking's "The Theory Of Everything" a few years ago, and gave up after a couple of chapters. Left me wayyy behind on Planet Earth with my brain melting out of my ears.

Amazing mind and will to get his ideas out there, despite such a horrendous disease.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Surprising thing about this thread is that bsnub had actually heard of and knew who Stephen Hawking was.

That is because I am not a stupid knuckle dragging idiot like you are.

White holes as well as black ones in space? Must've been pretty good drugs these guys were taking...

Where's my time machine? Not even a teleporter blueprint to leave behind in his legacy.

Give me an applied scientist rather than a theorist any day....

send for za to turn him off and on again

Stephen Hawking to join Newton, Darwin in final resting place

LONDON (Reuters) - British physicist Stephen Hawking is to take his place among some of the greatest scientists in history when his ashes are interred inside Westminster Abbey, close to the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

Hawking, the world’s most recognizable scientist, died last week aged 76 after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the universe, the mysteries of black holes and the nature of time itself.


Ravaged by the wasting motor neurone disease he developed at 21, Hawking was confined to a wheelchair for most of his life. As his condition worsened, he had to speak through a voice synthesizer and communicate by moving his eyebrows.



Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of 17 monarchs and of some of the most significant figures in British history, said on Tuesday it would hold a Service of Thanksgiving for Hawking later this year, during which his ashes would be interred.


“It is entirely fitting that the remains of Professor Stephen Hawking are to be buried in the Abbey, near those of distinguished fellow scientists,” said the Dean of Westminster, John Hall, in a statement.


Newton, who formulated the law of universal gravitation and laid the foundations of modern mathematics, was buried in the abbey in 1727.


Darwin, whose theory of evolution was one of the most far-reaching scientific breakthroughs of all time, was buried close to Newton in 1882.



Interment inside Westminster Abbey is a rarely bestowed honor. The most recent burials of scientists there were those of Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of nuclear physics, in 1937, and of Joseph John Thomson, who discovered electrons, in 1940.


Hawking’s death last week was met with tributes from around the world.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-b...-idUSKBN1GW2GV