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Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing
mr_3ntropy writes "Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture, Hawking said yesterday that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing. He said more work is needed to prove this but we have time because 'Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.' There is also a Webcast available (Realplayer or Real Alternative required)."
Sounds like his speech was Much Ado About Nothing
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Hawking is such a hack.
That's not how it really happened... But when they were come into the Void, Ilúvatarr said to them: 'Behold your Music!' And he showed them a vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; and they saw a new World made visible before them, and it was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it.
It sounds to me like someone just discovered the Burger Joint at the Beginning of the Universe.
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All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction--Down.
It would add some credibility when I tell my girlfriend that the porn in my browser history came ex nihilo.
In this house we obey the law of thermodynamics.
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What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all old. They all have two carts and coupons for every item. They are all paying by check. None of them have ID. It's the checkout girl's first day on the job. She doesn't speak any English. Take away fifteen minutes from that, and you begin to get an idea of what eternity is.
Thank you, Emo Philips.
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
Maybe we could ask Paris Hilton, too.
Among celebrity experts she is most definitely the biggest authority on the science of creating something from nothing.
And there was still nothing, but at least you could see it.
Have gnu, will travel.
"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."
Sure, it may feel like an eternity, but that's what it takes to get a decent table at Milliways.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
It would seem you have backed yourself into a corner here.
We are all just people.
"Do we have to listen to the webcast to get any of the good stuff?"
Why don't you listen to it and let us know.
universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing.
So how long till it pops out of existence?
In about 2 secon
why? forty-two.
Right, Maxwell, Newton, Pascal, Kepler, Faraday, etc. I'm sure you wouldn't descend from your lofty perch to talk to such as these.
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couldnt they just give you the text and let windows text to speech engine say it? It would almost be like if you were there!
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Sounds pretty monumental to me:
"Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created"
the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing
This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.--Douglas Adams
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Ve are nihilists, Lebowski!
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Hawking is just a little late jumping on the bandwagon
:P
I doubt very much that Dr. Hawking is jumping ANYWHERE, you insensitive clod!
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That is the theory of relativity in action.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
GEORGE: Come on, how hard is that? Look at all the junk science these days. You want an idea? Here's an idea. A higher being, of incomprehensible power created it.
Hawking: Scientists don't like the idea of higher beings.
GEORGE: But it is a being of incomprehensible power.
HAWKING: That is not for everybody.
GEORGE: I know, but it's incomprehensible
HAWKING: That would make me look like such a schmuck.
GEORGE: All right, forget that idea, it's not for you....Okay, okay, I got it. How about the Universe is created from nothing? Every scientist tries to make it about something, how about making this about nothing?
HAWKING: Yeah and...?
GEORGE: And people say hey it's about nothing, they look at their meaningless lives, and sort of just agree.
"I don't think it's selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish." -NOFX
We went home. Now I wish we had bought some while it was on sale.
About the universe waking up from nothingness, and creating itself. This means we could have skipped 2,000 years of religious wars, standardized on Hinduism, made it Open Source and still had the New Age movement with its interesting drugs.
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At what point do we stop looking at Hawking as some demigod genius, and realize that he has gone absolutely crackers?
At the point where he decides to push everyone out of the spaceship and fly to Jupiter...
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May he be touched by His noodly appendage. Ramen.
He thinks, therefore he am.
And what the hell is a philosophical empiricist? How would one test a philosophical theory?
Philosopher: I think, therefore I am.
Empiricist clocks philosopher upside the head and knocks him out cold
Empiricist: Nope. Still there.
Since empirical and philosophical are mutually exclusive, one would think that if an philosophical empiricist existed, we would enter some kind of twilight zone where military intelligence would make sense...
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Universe halted.
Hit F1 to continue.
God defeated evil on the cross and Jesus will return.
10 words, not even 10 seconds.
In the beginning when God created the Up Quark, the Down Quark, the Top Quark, the Bottom Quark; then the Charm Quark, the Strange Quark; also he made the Tau Neutrino, the Muon Neutrino, the Electron Neutrino. Then he saw that the mattercules where good. Then he made the number one, and separated it from 0. Then he made Latin so that he could coax the rest of the crap made from nothing...
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You know, it's a universe, about nothing! Nothing? That's right, Nothing! For example, what did you do today? Created a black hole. See, that's an episode...