Stephen Hawking said...

"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen..Mankind's greatest acheivements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. "

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ARMEL from WARRENSBURG ,USA 64093 (January 30, 2012)
Hello, i am having a serious question for scientist how can a freely falling object does not experience air resistance while the will say the same thing that if a body falls in a vacuum it does not experience air resistance example how can an elephant and a mouse be falling under free fall and be having the same acceleration while in reality i think thier velocity is changing and we know that speeding bodies have different acceleration as can be seen that the elephant will speed more than mouse hence meaning they are having different accelerations and also we also know that speeding bodies experience air resistance as they increase in speed and why then is the elephant arriving the first while we know that air resistance depends on the size of the body and its nature and we see that the elephant is having a larger surface area than the mouse .Also we say that the force due to gravity is different on the bodies but really seeing force of gravity equally depends on the that acceleration because mass never changes. example the elephant and mouse on the earth will have different force of gravity acting on them and the force cannot remain the same on the moon simply because the acceleration due to gravity is not the same so it concludes that force of gravity can only depend on the acceleration of the bodies and never on their masses hence telling us that the mouse and elephant have different accelerations. Eventually i think scientist have certainly made an error i wish to have an entertainment with a scientist i cannot accept this concept we need to reason again about this.THANKS

Tato Sugiarto from Jakarta, Indonesia (August 24, 2011)
TORTOISE (Hinduism) and DRAGON (Taoism) are symbols for ENERGY or WAVE, both are analog with MAGEN DAVID (Judaism). "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is the metaphor, also Thawaf seven times circling around the Ka'ba and Sa’i oscillating along “the sinus” Marwah-Shafa during rituals of the Hajj (Abraham).
"A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME - From the Big Bang to Black Hole" by Stephen W. Hawking is the best scientific interpretation of AL QUR'AN by a non believer. It is also a “genuine bridge stone” for comprehensive study of Theology. Surprise, this paradox is a miracle and blessing in disguise as well. So, it should be very wise and challenging for Moslem scholars to verify my discovery.
NeoSUFI visionary strategic thinking by an "ordinary people".

Scott J from Manitowoc,WI (February 10, 2011)
Such a great mind and so very interesting a personality. I am a genuine fan.

Jack Byrne from Silver City N.M. (December 11, 2009)
Hawking is brilliant but he , nor anyone, has united Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

Amanda Harding from Salt Lake City, UT (October 6, 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.

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Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge. His research in cosmology has led to the unification of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory. He became internationally known for his best seller A Brief History of Time.

The first of four children, he was born to Frank and Isobel Hawking in Oxford, England. He has two sisters, Philippa and Mary, and an adopted brother, Edward. The Hawkings temporarily retreated from London, while under German attack, but moved back after the birth of their son. Frank Hawking was a research biologist in the parasitology division of the National Institute for Medical Research.

Upon entering University College, Hawking preferred to study mathematics but chose physics since the former was not offered. After three years, he earned his undergraduate degree in Natural Science with first class honors.

At the age of 21, while studying cosmology at Cambridge, Hawking developed symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, a motor neuron disease that leads to the loss of all neuromuscular control. Initially given a few years of survival, Hawking has long outlived any other known patient.

Hawking earned his doctorate under the supervision of Denis Sciama. Following, he was a Research Fellow, and later, a Professional Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. He left the Institute of Astronomy in 1973. In 1974 he became the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society. Then he came to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he has held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics since 1979. Lucasion Professor is the mathematical professorship at the University of Cambridge established by former Member of Parliament to the University, Reverend Henry Lucas in 1665. The second professor to hold the chair was Isaac Newton in 1669.

In the 1960's Hawking and his Cambridge colleague, Roger Penrose, expanded on Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to show the implication of space and time beginning with the Big Bang and ending in black holes. This understanding led to the unification of General Relativity with Quantum Theory. He also determined that black holes are not completely black but emit radiation before eventually evaporating and disappearing. His other conjecture is that the universe has no edge and no boundaries in imaginary time.

Hawking's popular publications include, "The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with GFR Ellis," "General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey and three books, A Brief History of Time (1988), Black Holes and Baby Universes (1993) and The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)

Hawking has been recognized with twelve honorary degrees and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

In January 2007 Hawking announced his plan to travel to space on board a Virgin Galactic spacecraft.

He is almost completely paralyzed. He is able to communicate with a computer system attached to his wheelchair that operates from a infra-red blink switch on his glasses.

Hawking has three children from his first marriage to Jane Wilde in 1965. The couple separated in 1991 and divorced soon after. Hawking then married one of his nurses, Elaine Mason, in 1995. They divorced in 2006.

Jane Hawking published her memoirs of her relationship with Hawking, Music to Move the Stars, in 1999.