Prof. Stephen Hawking - The Origin of the Universe
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Prof. Stephen Hawking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem December 14, 2006 Prof. Stephen Hawking, generally regarded as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein, presented a public lecture at the Hebrew University on "The Origin of the Universe." The lecture took place at the Ezequiel Liwerant - Fomento Mexico Hall at Mount Scopus on Thursday, December 14, 2006, at 5 p.m. While considered one of the greatest scientists of the modern age, Hawking, who has been rendered quadriplegic by the motor neurone disease ALS, has been able to communicate complex matters concerning quantum physics, theoretical cosmology, quantum gravity and black holes not just to other physicists, but also to the general public -- making him something of a scientific celebrity. His 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, stayed on the Sunday Times bestseller list for a record 237 weeks. Professor Hawking, who is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has twelve honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honor in 1989. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. During his visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, which was sponsored by the British government, Hawking met with fellow scientists and academics.
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There was nothing before the universe...awesome yeah so logical.
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There might be nothing before the beginning of the Universe. Awesome theory ever. Prof. Stephen Hawking always attracts us. Thanks,
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it is a hardware voice synthesizer
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I think he has refused to change it, because it has become his own voice of sorts.
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WE started time on OUR OWN schedules for OUR OWN reasons based on the duration of our own life spans. When the earth was created is when it was created and when the first humans said now is now and tomorrow is a new is the complete answer to time.
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The universe has no beggining. Its not possible.
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He is clingy to his 80's voicebox
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And then he had a student banned from Cambridge for a century for throwing some coins into his meal as part of a stupid campus prank. No joke, banned for 10" years for spare change.
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The universe is eternal, continuously dying and being reborn.
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Did Hawking sign any books after the lecture?
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Steve hawking has a god complex
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The part that we think of as the universe may have had a beginning, but the larger whole did not.
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@tubeyou1905 to illustrate: Consider a 3D image of a block that is 100cm3, made of 1cm3 blocks ; if you expanded or "blew up" the block equally each way, each block would view its neighboring block as moving away from it - this it would appear to that block that they are stationary. It's the space BETWEEN the blocks that expands. :)
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@tubeyou1905 No, the space between galaxies is expanding; from any galaxy, it will seem like we are at "the center". :)
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If galaxies are moving away from us, indicating that they must have, at some point, been right on top of us, does this mean WE are at the center? Or are there galaxies that we are moving away from? Galaxies moving away from us, doesn't mean we are also moving. Just curious.
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Stephen Hawking has stated to have grown fond of the voice synthesizer's voice, and refuses to upgrade his system unless the new system has the same voice. The voice card dates back to 1980s.
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The way Hawking's describes time from around 22:00 leaves me with the impression that we could consider any point in time as the beginning, just like we could consider any point on Earth as the beginning of the planet, or any point on the surface of a sphere as the beginning of the sphere. Like he said, "The south pole is like any other point." That leads me to conclude that the universe has been around forever, for there is no beginning of a sphere. I believe this to be true.
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03:38 "If the universe had existed forever why did it take an infinite amount of time to reach the present stage?" This question is very easy to answer. Because the universe is just going through an infinite cycle of change. The present stage just happens to be the state the universe is in at this moment. Tomorrow the universe will be in a different state, and then a different state the day after that, and so on, forever. By "universe" I refer to everything in existence.
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into the universe
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Lol I'm in grade 8 I want to here in for real I'm not a nerd lol
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