Stephen Hawking retires ... sort of

[Neroon]

Anybody seen CDR Data around? His future job is now open.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27359713/

In all seriousness, it's hard to conceive of a mind like his ever truly retiring.

 

[Deckerd]

It's a tradition. At age 67 the Lucasian Chair is given up. He's staying on at Cambridge though.

I just wish he would stop writing all that junk about there being no god.

 

[Neroon]

Huh... I had no idea of that tradition. Do you know how it came about?

 

[Deckerd]

Probably goes back to Isaac Newton. He probably gave the Chair up at that age and every successor did everything they could to emulate him.





I just made that up, of course. No idea.

 

[Starbreaker]

Newton was 39 at the time... good guess though.

 

[Shaw]

I just wish he would stop writing all that junk about there being no god.

I wish people would stop writing all that junk about there being a god, but neither point seems appropriate here.

I still make great use of his 1973 text The Large Scale Structure Of Space-Time (which he wrote with Ellis). That text along with Penrose's Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity and Frankel's The Geometry of Physics are my favorite physics books.

 

[TheRealNaveed]

I still make great use of his 1973 text The Large Scale Structure Of Space-Time (which he wrote with Ellis). That text along with Penrose's Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity and Frankel's The Geometry of Physics are my favorite physics books.

I'll wait for the movies.

 

[T'Aerwynd]

That man simply amazes me. He's on my Top 10 List of people I want to meet. If you're wanting a good, interesting read ... check out his A Brief History of Time and A Briefer History of Time.

 

[Unicron]

We so need a pic of Stephen's head from Futurama shooting eyebeams.

"I didn't know I could do that."

 

[jgdst]

I still make great use of his 1973 text The Large Scale Structure Of Space-Time (which he wrote with Ellis). That text along with Penrose's Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity and Frankel's The Geometry of Physics are my favorite physics books.

I'll wait for the movies.

LOL

 

[K'riq Sa]

or the Cliff notes...







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