Big Bang day !!

[moorfield]

If hawkins is so clever why does he still insist on talking like a 1980's speak and spell. I would have thought he would have updated things so that he could change it to do different voices by now.

Because he is Davros, and not even the Doctor dare argue with Davros.

[DimPrawn]

What's sasguru's opinion on all this? After all, he's the fooking genius round here.

[TimberWolf]

Is he actually that good, or is it just that he's physics' biggest celebrity?

If the LHC were to produce little black holes, I don’t think there’s any doubt I would get a Nobel prize, if they showed the properties I predict,” Professor Hawking told the Today programme.

Hawkings is good, but overrated by himself and the masses I feel. If he got the Nobel it would be for work on black holes, not directly to do with the experiments being done at Cern with the Higgs boson. I don't think he's all that highly rated by physicists (any more than anyone else), but I think more so for Hawkins than with most physicists, you wouldn't want to trust his opinion outside of the narrow realm of mathematics of black holes. In other words he don't arf talk a lot of carp and big himself up. Of course if you take his disability into account the guy is a genius, on black holes.

[daviejones]

Hawkings is good, but overrated by himself and the masses I feel. If he got the Nobel it would be for work on black holes, not directly to do with the experiments being done at Cern with the Higgs boson. I don't think he's all that highly rated by physicists (any more than anyone else), but I think more so for Hawkins than with most physicists, you wouldn't want to trust his opinion outside of the narrow realm of mathematics of black holes. In other words he don't arf talk a lot of carp and big himself up. Of course if you take his disability into account the guy is a genius, on black holes.

And in terms of his diability, he is almost unique in the fact that the disease seems to have stopped progressing. The life expectancy for this is 2-5 years. He has had this more than 30 years I believe. It is also one of the most dreadful diseases and he has coped pretty well I would say, including fathering children.....so in that respect, well done to the man.

[M_B]

If hawkins is so clever why does he still insist on talking like a 1980's speak and spell. I would have thought he would have updated things so that he could change it to do different voices by now.

I saw a programme about him that explained that - The technology is available, but he didn't want to change the sound as he knows everyone now recognizes it as his voice.

[The Lone Gunman]

Hawking is a sock puppet, it is the bloke who programmes the "speak and spell" machine who is the genius.

[wobbegong]

Hawkins (the guy in the wheelchair) is going on about how he might get a Nobel prize now.

Q: What's better than getting a Nobel prize?

A: Walking.

[TimberWolf]

And in terms of his diability, he is almost unique in the fact that the disease seems to have stopped progressing. The life expectancy for this is 2-5 years. He has had this more than 30 years I believe. It is also one of the most dreadful diseases and he has coped pretty well I would say, including fathering children.....so in that respect, well done to the man.

According to the wiki on ALS

It is important to remember that some patients with ALS have an arrested course with no progression beyond a certain point despite extensive follow-up...Most people with ALS die from respiratory failure, usually within 3 to 5 years from the onset of symptoms. However, about 10 percent of those individuals with ALS survive for 10 or more years.

[LadyChatterley]

Ask Diver.

After reading his signature, I'd of thought he was the genius on this one.

[daviejones]

According to the wiki on ALS

Yes, but there are different types of ALS. My dad died in March 2007, of the very same type that Stephen Hawking has. The anomaly with Stephen's type, is that it seems to have stopped progressing with respect to his breathing. Normally after 2 years, a BiPaP would be needed to help him breathe.

It is true, some people last more than 10 years...the vast majority, less than 5.