The death of a great man is often called "the fall of a superstar". Hawking died, so it is more appropriate to use this word. After all, his old job is to study celestial bodies.
The philosopher Russell once said that the desire for love, the pursuit of knowledge and overwhelming sympathy for human suffering were the three major driving forces that dominated his life. Similarly, Hawking, who spent most of his life in a wheelchair, has achieved today's achievements because of three major motivations: Xiao Qiang's willpower, urchin's curiosity and philosopher's sense of humor.
With this "three axes", Hawking sat in a wheelchair, thinking about the universe, and again and again, guiding human eyes to the vast space.
Hawking was born on Galileo's birthday and died on Einstein's birthday. If he had underground knowledge, he would have made such a quip with his ghost horse character. It seems that Einstein was right. God doesn't roll dice.
Hawking in his youth
When Hawking was 2 1 year old, he suffered from gradual freezing and was very ill. The doctor told him that he had only two years to live. The full name of this gradual freezing disease is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The patient will feel muscle weakness first, then he will be paralyzed and lose the function of speaking, swallowing and even breathing.
According to the ALS Research Association, the average life expectancy of diagnosed patients is only two to five years. 50% of the patients lived for more than 3 years, 20% lived for more than 5 years, and less than 2% lived for more than 30 years like Hawking. A professor said in surprise, "Hawking is absolutely a miracle. I have never seen people who have ALS live so long. "
Hawking's longevity is not unrelated to his philosophical personality.
After the diagnosis, people around him thought Hawking would give up on himself. Instead, Hawking married a round-faced girl named Jane Wagner. His reason for getting married was amazing: "I was very confused at that time, and I listened to Wagner's song. It happened that this girl was also called Wagner, so we got married."
This Miss Wagner, who is also a strange girl, was asked why she married a man with a life span of only two years. She said without thinking, I heard that two years ago, the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union were coming.
Behind this crazy black humor, it is actually not easy to compromise with fate. It is this kind of open-mindedness and stubbornness that makes Hawking break the doctor's prediction and live to an age where he can do whatever he wants.
1974, the problem of black holes was hotly debated in physics. At that time, people had basically acknowledged that black holes were a physical fact, but in astronomical observation, no exact entity had been found, only a suspected object named Cygnus X- 1.
Hawking expressed doubts about this celestial body. He made a bet with Thorne, a physicist at California Institute of Technology, and made a written statement. If you lose, help the other party subscribe to attic magazine 1 year. This incident caused a great sensation at that time. After all, Attic is an erotic publication with the same name as Playboy.
Many years later, the answer was revealed, and scientists verified that the real swan X- 1 was indeed a black hole. 1990, Hawking gave a speech at California Institute of Technology. After work, he went straight to Thorne's office, dug up the gambling records of that year, and solemnly pressed his handprint to give up.
Later, Hawking kept his promise and subscribed to the attic magazine for Thorne for one year.
From 65438 to 0979, Hawking obtained the position of Professor Lucas, which is the most important professor title in mathematics. In front of this honor, Hawking showed his talent as a player: I took notes at random in the department office, and the dean was very angry, so he chose me as Professor Lucas so that I could move to another office.
In fact, Hawking has coveted this position for a long time and can name all the people who have served as Professor Lucas since Newton.
Hawking is humorous and playful, and he is persistent in science.
Hawking's greatest ambition is to combine general relativity with quantum mechanics to establish a "unified field theory" and complete Einstein's unfinished business.
Black holes are not black, which is Hawking's main research achievement.
Traditionally, the gravity of a black hole is so great that even fleeting light cannot escape from it. Hawking firmly believes that black holes are not "black" and there must be radiation leaking out, which means that black holes have entropy, which is the so-called "Hawking radiation".
In addition to establishing the theory that black holes are not black, Hawking also has unique opinions on issues such as crossing time and space and whether aliens exist.
Hawking once published an article in the British "Daily Mail" saying that time travel is feasible in theory, and human beings can open the door to the past and the future.
Hawking said that there are three ways to travel through time and space.
The first one is through the wormhole. Everything in the universe has holes or cracks, and time is no exception. The crack of time is a wormhole. Wormholes are around us, but they are invisible to the naked eye, because they belong to "quantum bubbles" and are smaller than atoms. If one day, humans can catch a wormhole and enlarge it enough for humans to pass through, they can travel in time and space.
The second way is through black holes. According to Einstein's theory, time is like a river, which flows fast in some places and slow in others. A supermassive black hole is equivalent to a natural time machine, which can obviously reduce the speed of time passing.
The third way is to fly near the speed of light. If we can get the spacecraft close to the speed of light, the time in the cabin will slow down. It has been a hundred years since astronauts flew in a spaceship for a week.
As for aliens, Hawking firmly believes in their existence. There is a simple reason. There are/kloc-0.000 billion galaxies in the universe, and each galaxy contains hundreds of millions of stars. With such a vast space, the earth can't be the only planet that has evolved life.
Although Hawking concluded that aliens must exist, he did not suggest that humans should actively look for aliens. Because they may be smarter than humans and regard the earth as a big fat to be slaughtered, which will bring disaster.
Hawking is not only a giant of science, but also very literary.
The original title of the book "The Universe in the Shell" is taken from the second scene of the second act of Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet. Hamlet said in the play, "Ah! Oh, my god I was once locked in a small shell, but I was pretentious and thought I was a king with endless heaven and earth. "
At the end of "The Universe in the Shell", Hawking used a poem from "The Tempest": "Ah! In this beautiful new world, there are such beautiful humans living in it. " Hawking skillfully changed "courage" into "film", so the beautiful new world became "the universe in the shell".
Young people are deeply impressed by Hawking, except for the book A Brief History of Time, which is selling like crazy all over the world, and because of his many cross-borders, he occasionally catches a glimpse of popular culture and makes a soy sauce.
In 20 14, the rock band Pink Floyd released a new album, including a rock song with Hawking's participation: Talking about Hawking. In fact, as early as the 1990s, Hawking gave the band a voice. In that single, Hawking is like a hip-hop musician, reading the original lyrics: Millions of years ago, we were alive, just like birds and animals.
In the sci-fi movie Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hawking plays himself and plays poker with a group of dead physicists in the spaceship, including Newton and Einstein.
Hawking wrote the experience of this electric shock in his book "The Universe of Shell": "I beat all these guys, but unfortunately the alarm appeared and I didn't get back the money I won."
In the American TV series "The Big Bang Theory", Hawking excitedly started a walk-on. He sat in a wheelchair, cocked his head and looked complacent. Hawking's appearance made the cold "Schell" scream. In order to attract the attention of his idol, he did not hesitate to put on a maid's dress and a short skirt.
I vaguely remember Hawking's grand opening of Weibo.
Hawking's first Weibo, "Say hello to netizens in China", has won more than 3 million fans and nearly one million praises. Only one day later, Hawking's second Weibo caused a sensation again. He will participate in the development of nano-aircraft, which will enable humans to reach Centauri. Hawking proudly said in Weibo that yuri milner, the number one Russian local tyrant, and Xiaozha, the founder of Facebook, also participated in the project.
Hawking's last Weibo was written on 2017165438+1October 24th.
Karry, a member of TFBOYS, asked Hawking in the form of video on Weibo, what preparations should be made before human beings explore the universe and emigrate to other planets to continue the earth civilization? How to protect traditional culture?
On the day of the question, Hawking immediately replied: "I am very happy to make a video response to this excellent question raised by Karry. His question made me see the thinking and curiosity of the millennials in China about the future. I hope this curiosity and confidence will continue when you pursue science and other creativity. Let's look forward to the future together. "
In the video, Hawking said that human destruction of the earth is threatening its own survival. If you want to think about how to live in the future, you must have imagination. At the same time, he also said that he did not believe that traditional culture would disappear. Art and music are oriented to human beings and have no meaning to alien species, so there is no need to worry about it.
Now, the people of Sri Lanka have left behind images and words in the world.
According to the big bang theory, the universe was born because a tiny point exploded at a certain moment. After billions of years of expansion, the singularity finally evolved into today's universe.
Hawking once participated in a popular science program called "Xing Yan" before his death. In the program, the host asked him: What was BIGBANG like before?
Hawking replied: Before the Big Bang, the universe was silent.
Man's understanding of physics is still at a naive and ridiculous stage. He has not realized, and may never realize, that the universe, everything and life can exist in thousands of dimensions.
Perhaps in a certain dimension, Hawking is still tirelessly exploring the universe.