is Stephen Hawking really that smart?

[Fritzo]

He can use computers. How do you think he is even able to talk?

His input method is incredibly slow and tedious. He mentioned in his book he learned how to do calculations in his head so he only has condensed input to give to his assistant. He really is a math prodigy.

 

[sayounara]

Yes, He is a genius.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Hawking is fucking ""Hawking Smart", that is on a level similar to Einstein, Tesla, Newton, Copernicus, Darwin, and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Also, due to his physical conditions, he has lived in his own mind for much of his life, thus, amplifying his mental superpowers.

 

[smackababy]

If Hawking is so smart, how came he can't figure out a way to walk? Doesn't sound very smart to me.

 

[alkemyst]

QFT

LOL, both Texas and Minnesota representing!

 

[alkemyst]

If Hawking is so smart, how came he can't figure out a way to walk? Doesn't sound very smart to me.

At least he doesn't leave people crippled just reading posts like yours.

 

[BurnItDwn]

If Hawking is so smart, how came he can't figure out a way to walk? Doesn't sound very smart to me.

You are applying the Oreilly Bill measurement of intelligence metric...

"He who shouts the loudest, is the winner, and therefor the smartest."

 

[alkemyst]

He is worth $20million, he is smarter than probably all in this thread.

 

[Perknose]

^^^ Proof enough for me, plus I hear he dabbles in astrophysics.

 

[Jaskalas]

is Stephen Hawking really that smart?

If this question is based on comments recently attributed to him, I urge you to pause and consider that 1: They can be misused by the media, 2: Anyone is eventually going to lose their mind as they age.

I look up to him, as he was in his prime. I do not look down on his as he is now. I simply acknowledge that the world needs to move on, as they do for all things.

 

[Jeffg010]

He is worth $20million, he is smarter than probably all in this thread.

Well he is definitely smarter then you.

 

[Kev]

quick, name one of his life accomplishments without googling.

i can't name any.

wrote a brief history of time, a rather excellent book and one of the most popular science books of all time.

 

[soccerballtux]

how is he worth $20m? book revenue? or because a corporation could bend his mind into research to take over the world?

 

[Printer Bandit]

is he an atheist?

 

[BurnItDwn]

He is worth $20million, he is smarter than probably all in this thread.

Look at all those posters, some fat guy with a beard, a non-Jodorowski alchemist .. It isn't THAT hard to beat that

 

[Newell Steamer]

TIL ATOT knows better than the entire scientific community; institutions, people and all.

 

[BurnItDwn]

TIL ATOT knows better than the entire scientific community; institutions, people and all.

ATOT contains much of the worlds scientific community, institutions, people, and all.

 

[alkemyst]

Look at all those posters, some fat guy with a beard, a non-Jodorowski alchemist .. It isn't THAT hard to beat that

It's Alkemyst, let us know when you beat that.

 

[Muse]

yes one of the top minds of a generation along with other names you've also heard, and there are many others like him that go uncelebrated

That fact tends to go unnoticed, but it's pretty key. So many people don't realize how flimsy is fame as a marker for greatness. There seem to be myriads better musicians than a great many of the famous and celebrated ones these days. I have no opinion on Hawking, I haven't read his books, but a sig I have in another set of forums does quote him, I'll paste it here:
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"If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball eight miles wide." - A Briefer History of Time, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Dec. 2010: Now thought to be over 11 miles wide!
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Of course, if there are an infinite number of parallel universes that ball could have an unlimited, essentially infinite diameter. Does space and geometry mean anything at all? Infinity squared (or to the third power) would be a lot bigger than infinity, but ... it does make a mockery of geometry does it not?