It appears that über genius Stephen Hawking has officially lost his mind. Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”
It appears that über genius Stephen Hawking has officially lost his mind.
According to our good friends across the pond at The Telegraph UK:
Stephen Hawking is a chick magnet. Or maybe they're just drawn to him by gravity.
In his latest book, The Grand Design, an extract of which is published in Eureka magazine in The Times, Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”
He added: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”
Got that? Gravity, a force that can only be created by matter, created the matter that then created the gravity that could not have existed before the matter but all the same created the universe. Remember, kids, this is the man that thinks you’re stupid for believing in God.
However, as good science is all about competing theories we’d like to posit one of our own.
Perhaps Dr. Hawking hasn’t really lost his mind. Perhaps all his recent talk of bellicose, time traveling space aliens and a universe created by illogic is merely a ruse. A clever ruse intended to raise the cosmologist’s cachet with the general public and finally get him a shot at appearing on Dancing with the Stars.
If Hawking is correct, please sign us up for the first rocket leaving for January 21, 2013, the day when Barack Obama’s successor is inaugurated.
Stephen Hawking, the world’s most famous theoretical physicist, says time travel is possible. Unfortunately, Hawking’s theory would negate the possibility of both Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine and Superman’s nifty trick of flying around the earth counterclockwise to go back in time.
Fox News has the timely details:
Preparing for the debut of his Discovery documentary, Stephen Hawking’s Universe, which screens next week, Hawking said he believed humans could travel millions of years into the future and repopulate their devastated planet.
Hawking said once spaceships were built that could fly faster than the speed of light, a day on board would be equivalent to a year on Earth. That’s because — according to Einstein — as objects accelerate through space, time slows down around them.
Which also means that Hawking’s theory only applies to moving forwards through time.
Moving backwards is impossible, Hawking says, because it “violates a fundamental rule that cause comes before effect.”
If moving backwards through time was possible, a person could shoot their former selves.
“I believe things cannot make themselves impossible,” Hawking said.
If Hawking is correct, please sign us up for the first rocket leaving for January 21, 2013, the day when Barack Obama’s successor is inaugurated.
Stephen Hawking thinks alien civilizations may well exist and warns that if we Earthlings know what’s good for us, we’ll stop trying to contact them.
We consider Henry Waxman to be convincing evidence that hideous, alien creatures are already among us
Stephen Hawking thinks alien civilizations may well exist and warns that if we Earthlings know what’s good for us, we’ll stop trying to contact them.
Hawking’s Discovery Channel documentary hypothesizes some very strange looking reptilian and aquatic creatures.
The Times UK amplifies the potential alien alienation:
Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.
He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”
He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
Are you kidding? Apparently Hawking hasn’t seen the glitzy Indian casinos dotting the American landscape.
Thank Columbus. And roll the dice. Baby needs a new pair of shoes.
