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Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.

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Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
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Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
A great mathematical physicist; if anyone deserved a Nobel Prize, he did:

https://news.sky.com/story/scientist-ste...6-11289119
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:02 am
Massive loss to the scientific community.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:04 am
Just heard 

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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:06 am
That's left a big black hole in my heart.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:11 am
Damn, well, considering the state of his health I am not too shocked but this is still really sad.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:24 am (This post was last modified: March 14, 2018 at 12:36 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 14, 2018 at 12:02 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Massive loss to the scientific community.

Perhaps.

But I've also heard It said, include by notable Nobel prize winning physicists, that Hawking's actual contribution to advancing the state of physics nowhere near justify his outsized fame as physicist amongst general public, and he would be remembered more as a personality than as a physicist.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:28 am
Just saw it now, this fucking sucks.

What a brilliant man. He will be missed.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 12:55 am
Sad

He was such an inspirational person, showing just how much you can make of life even in very difficult circumstances. Also an embodiment of the power of science. Sad to lose him.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 1:32 am
He lived an amazing length of time with ALS.

RIP.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
March 14, 2018 at 2:08 am
Maybe just as well he died now before he lost what little means of communication he had left to him rather than being a prisoner in his own mind.

A great loss.
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