Amanda Harding
Salt Lake City, UT

Posted at 12:38pm on Monday, October 6th, 2008

Professor Hawkings books were my first scientific books I red when I was a teenager, he is a true inspiration and unique lovable character.

Carl Hogan
Sutter Creek, CA - USA

Posted at 1:46pm on Monday, May 28th, 2007

Since I have no credentials I can only express myself in "beliefs".
The religionists ask that we believe that a man rose from the dead, walked on water, et al. Steven asks that we believe that there is an "event horizon" at the mouth of a black hole. Viewed from its edge in a horizontal line of view a man's body entering the black hole would be disintegrated from all its atributes of reality (resulting in a non-reality being: a contradiction in terms) but viewed from above, directly into the black hole (hypothecating that by some method we could "see" beyond gravitational forces) the man's body would pass unscathed through the "event horizon".

O.K., Professor Hawking, how would the body be viewed at a 45 degree angle to the perpendicular; getting mangled only a bit?

I truly admire the Professor. He should be an inspiration to all of us dullards.