Why do people hate stephen hawking

In his book titled Tremendous Trifles , the literary giant G. I am sitting under tall trees, with a great wind boiling like surf about the tops of them, so that their living load of leaves rocks and roars in something that is at once exultation and agony.

The wind tugs at the trees as if it might pluck them root and all out of the earth like tufts of grass. Or, to try yet another desperate figure of speech for this unspeakable energy, the trees are straining and tearing and lashing as if they were a tribe of dragons each tied by the tail.

I remember a little boy of my acquaintance who was once walking in Battersea Park under just such torn skies and tossing trees. He did not like the wind at all; it blew in his face too much.

The nature of truth lies in the stereoscopic view of the physical and spiritual realms. To insist that truth lies only in one or the other domain is tunnel vision, which belongs to the land of the partially blind.

Science deals with the truth of nature. Those who claim to see the complete human story from within the hallways of the cathedral of scientism alone are spiritually blind to his revelation.

God of the macrocosm is God of the microcosm, shining into our hearts if invited in. We can never know God by scientific analysis but only by his grace. By grace, the spiritually blind on earth are given sight to behold him, God incarnate.

For some scientists, science has a finely tuned agenda to expunge God from our view of reality. Pronouncements from famous public scientists carry a lot of weight with those who are not themselves scientists.

Atheist fundamentalist scientists use scientific words to convey their views. During the s, [Richard] Dawkins introduced the idea of God as some kind of a mental virus that infected otherwise healthy minds. It was a powerful image that appealed to a growing public awareness of the risk of physical infections from HIV and software infections from computer viruses.

God as a virus of the mind? There is no way that science can prove or disprove the existence of God. Of course, it cannot; such are the boundaries of the book of nature. We recall that there was a degree of arrogance among the theologians involved in the Galileo affair, and a similar arrogance appears now among some in the realm of science. Scientists should learn with humility from the Galileo affair, lest they fall into the same trap of partial blindness. Our red flag would be this: Beware of atheist agendas masquerading under the mantle of science.

Hawking recognized a grand design in our well-tuned universe, the one and only universe we have ever observed. This may be the way things are. God could have created a plethora of universes—but it is no more than a hypothesis for which no direct observational test is possible. Is it a genuine scientific theory, asks the famous cosmologist George Ellis who worked with Stephen Hawking many years ago. The multiverse hypothesis was warmly embraced by some, not on the basis of observational evidence but rather, we believe, to meet a philosophical need.

Has science indeed solved all mysteries in our universe? With regard to the power and domains of the scientific method, we offer two comments. First, by no stretch of the imagination has everything been solved by science. From a cosmological perspective, over 95 percent of the universe is not visible: it is in the form of dark matter and dark energy, about which we know hardly anything more than that they exist.

The stars that astronomers see in spiral galaxies, for example, constitute a tiny fraction of their total mass; the disks of spiral galaxies are immersed in enormous envelopes of dark matter—matter that neither emits nor absorbs light.

Its mass must be at least as large as the mass of the detected galaxy. But we still have no idea what the dark matter is. Not only is there the enigmatic dark matter problem. Some exploding stars known as supernovae Ia in distant galaxies are, on average, fainter—and therefore farther from us—than predicted.

The expanding universe is accelerating! In many respects, Hawking treated his PhD students and collaborators as a second family. However busy he was, he always made time for us, often making dignitaries wait outside his office while he talked physics with a student. He would eat lunch with us several times per week, and funded a weekly lunch for the wider group to bring everyone together. There were many occasions when physics discussions merged seamlessly into social activities: going to the pub, eating dinner at one of his favourite Cambridge restaurants, and so on.

Hawking had a wonderful sense of humour. He turned his communication difficulties into an advantage, composing pithy one-liners. As we worked in closely related fields, we saw each other regularly even after I finished my PhD. In , I attended a conference in Cambridge celebrating his 75th birthday. Many of his former students and collaborators have gone on to become leaders in research in cosmology, gravitational waves, black holes and string theory. Others have had huge impact outside academia, such as Nathan Myhrvold at Microsoft.

There is currently pressure on academics to demonstrate the immediate impact of their research on society. It is perhaps worth reflecting that impact is not easily measurable on short time scales. His academic legacy is not just the remarkable science he produced, but the generations of minds he shaped.

But personally, what I will miss most is his humour and the general feeling of inspiration I got from being around him. Introduction to Impact Evaluation — Southampton, Southampton. Conducting Ethnographic Research — Southampton, Southampton. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom.

Other bombshells the British scientist left his readers with include the belief that alien life is out there, artificial intelligence could outsmart humans and time travel can't be ruled out. Hawking, considered one of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, died in March at the age of Stephen Hawking paper on black holes and 'soft hair' released. No one directs the universe," he writes in "Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Read More. Hawking suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS , a neurodegenerative disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, for most of his adult life.

The scientist died while still working on the book, which his family and colleagues finished with the help of his vast personal archives. While Hawking spoke of his lack of belief in God during his life, several of his other answers are more surprising. And he leaves open the possibility of other phenomena. He also predicts that "within the next hundred years we will be able to travel to anywhere in the Solar System.