Stephen Hawking has passed away at age 76

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RIP, but the guy was a hack. I was surprised by how little respected he was as a physicist by other physicists; saw a documentary of people shytting on his science.

He played his part to a T though.

Now this is interesting. Drop some links if you can.
 

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RIP, but the guy was a hack. I was surprised by how little respected he was as a physicist by other physicists; saw a documentary of people shytting on his science.

He played his part to a T though.

I wouldn't say a hack, but more like someone who was a greater communicator than fundamental discoverer. His Black Hole entropy stuff was interesting but he was never a serious candidate for a Nobel since his theoretical work in cosmology didn't touch what people like Kip Thorne, etc. are doing. Same with Michio Kaku.

A lot of the big stuff these days in cosmology is experimental with dark matter/energy, cosmic microwave background analysis, expolanets, etc. Theory hasn't moved super far past general relativity, Big Bang, and Hubble and most new knowledge is due to observation.
 

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I have to give him props for achieving everything he did despite that disability, but still, as an intellectual opponent of his brand of reductive materialism, fukk Stephen Hawking :pacspit:

Mathematical rationalism > 'seeing is believing'
 
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