Your favorite Theoretical Physicist/Scientist
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Feynman, without a question. If you haven't read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?", not to mention the addendum to the Rogers Commission Report, then I personally don't think you're yet qualified to answer the "favorite physicist" question.
Now, I don't know if cosmologists count in this thread, but of course Carl Sagan is the scientific love of my life (see avatar and sig). He's the most beautiful human I've ever known of.
Now, I don't know if cosmologists count in this thread, but of course Carl Sagan is the scientific love of my life (see avatar and sig). He's the most beautiful human I've ever known of.
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Agreed.
Probably not theoretical in the strictest sense, but in terms of scientists in general, I'd have to say Fiorella Terenzi. 
Not only is she smart AND Hot, but she can sing!
Not only is she smart AND Hot, but she can sing!
While I agree that both Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan are admirable choices, I don't think they are quite what the thread was looking for...
"So, who are your favorite notable scientists out there working today?"
Unfortunately (for all of us) both of those men have slipped into the category of historically great scientists.I am quite surprised that Ed Witten hasn't been brought up.
And if we could include mathematicians as scientists, I'd like to throw in the names of Bill Thurston, Michael Freedman and John Conway as people I also found inspiring.
Of course of those three, only Conway was as interesting in person as Penrose.
26 posts in and no mention of the University of Manchester's very own Prof. Brian Cox?
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"So, who are your favorite notable scientists out there working today?"Oops, I kinda missed the word "today".
I'll go back to sucking someplace else
Don't feel bad. I did the same thing. Of course, then it just makes me sad that Carl is dead.
Probably not theoretical in the strictest sense, but in terms of scientists in general, I'd have to say Fiorella Terenzi.
Not only is she smart AND Hot, but she can sing!
That's "hot?" Okay... Sort of. I guess. I mean I wouldn't kick her out of bed. But "hot?"
Eh deceased scientists are acceptable. But I was wanting to avoid the more obvious choices like Einstein, Newton and others.
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She's pretty. Her level of intelligence makes her searing hot.
Sweet. In that case, Sagan still stands as my favorite, followed by Richard Feynman, and a tie between Bill Nye, and Stephen Hawking.
Eh. I guess.
Sweet. In that case, Sagan still stands as my favorite, followed by Richard Feynman, and a tie between Bill Nye, and Stephen Hawking.
Hawking, per the opening post, is still exempt because he's pretty much the universal definition of "awesome."
Probably not theoretical in the strictest sense, but in terms of scientists in general, I'd have to say Fiorella Terenzi.
Not only is she smart AND Hot, but she can sing!
That's "hot?" Okay... Sort of. I guess. I mean I wouldn't kick her out of bed. But "hot?"
Damn right, hot!
Isn't Kaku the guy who said he wanted to "read the mind of God"?
I believe so and, honestly, who wouldn't?
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Can you imagine the kind of porn/dirty thoughts God must have? That alone would be worth it!
(Okay, that one is going to cost me.)
(Okay, that one is going to cost me.)
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Well, it depends on what you would consider dirty. A god does not have dirty thoughts, since all of creation is supposed to be holy. It would be like an architect or builder finding the construction of an elevator to be dirty/pornographic.
All of creation is not Holy the internet a lone proves that. He may have set the universe in motion, guided evolution and other things to make it into his vision but he has not control over what goes on in it (or he once did but has since stepped back and let things go on its own.)
Further, I'd argue that it'd be "possible" for God to have dirty thoughts because it could be argued that God has a god himself. God could be on of numerous deities all over-ruling their own universes on other planes of existence and they all speculate on who is their creator.
God is a Fifth-Dimensional being wondering about a Sixth-Dimensional Being.
