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Stephen Hawking Has a Message For One Direction Fans
An anonymous reader points out that Stephen Hawking recently gave some advice for One Direction fans. What is the cosmological effect of singer Zayn Malik leaving the best-selling boy band One Direction and consequently disappointing millions of teenage girls around the world? The advice of British cosmologist Stephen Hawking to heartbroken fans is to follow theoretical physics, because Malik may well still be a member of the pop group in another universe. The physicist took a break from speaking about his work as one of the world's leading scientists to answer the question from one upset fan during a talk at Sydney Opera House at the weekend. 'Finally a question about something important,' Hawking, who appeared via hologram, said to loud laughs from the audience. 'My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay attention to the study of theoretical physics because, one day, there may well be proof of multiple universes. It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another, different universe and, in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.'"
http://youtu.be/zn7-fVtT16k
What I want is a universe where George W. is still president of the free world. Fool me once, shame on somebody...
I'm not sure if I think it's incredibly disheartening that Stephen Hawking had been following that whole situation, or that I think it's incredibly cool that he's that in touch with kids. Hm.
Can it be both?
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the AI which hacked hawking's system and is using him as a puppet has developed a sense of humor.
we're doomed, and it will be hilarious.
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This is really stupid. What next - don't mourn the passing of your child - in another universe they might be alive? Fat lot of good that does for anyone here - after all, neither their nor their child's doppelganger in another universe would be an exact replica.
But I'll look at the bright side - in another universe crap like this wouldn't make it to slashdot's front page.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I took my niece to a One Direction concert, Arizona Cardinals Stadium, sold out. If we ever wanted to make an Islamic terrorist talk, use a One Direction concert as torture. A bunch of teenagers dressed provocatively trying to marry a band member. It would drive them nuts, as it did me.
It's said the only atomic particles exhibit the wave/partial duality answer large objects like people not so much. But what if you aggregate all of positions of ones self across all universes. If a person is sitting in a chair in his bedroom in pn universe would he be sitting in the exact same chair in the same way in all others? Perhaps in some you are an inch to the left, in others across the room. And still ib other across town. Like an electron you exact position is not certain across all universes.
I'm sorry, Zyan. It's a bummer. In this reality, you're as dumb as they come. But we're gonna go on even more adventures, Zee. And you're gonna keep your mouth shut about it, Zee! Because the world is full of idiots that don't understand what's important, and they'll tear us apart, Zee! But if you stick with me, I'm gonna accomplish great things, Zyan, and you're gonna be part of 'em. And together we're gonna run around, Zee, we're gonna- (uurp) do all of kinds of wonderful things, Zyan. Just you and me, Zyan. The outside world is our enemy, Zee! We're the only fehh-friends we got, Zyan! It's just Steve and Zee! St-uurp-eve and Zee and their adventures, Zyan! Steve and Zyan forever and forever, 100 years, Steve and Zee's things! Me and Steve and Zee running around and... Steve and Zee time! All day long, forever... all- a hundred days! Steve and Zee forever a hundred times! Over and over, steveandzyanadventures.com! Www.steveandzyan.com! Www.steveandzeeadventures! All 100 years. Every minute, steveandzee.com! [closing garage door inside] Www.100timessteveandzee.com!
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THe good thing about Slashdot is, no pictures.
What is it about Hawkings and his gimped up physique that compels every goddamned website even mentioning his name to cut to a shot of him?
It's like, they're fascinated by his horrifying visage, and are trying to prove how enlightened they are for featuring it in full color.
Malik and Hawking can exist in another universe ONLY if it's exact copy of ours or there are indefinitely many of them. Otherwise our universes are completely different and they diverged billions years ago, from the very beginning. Which is the most likely scenario if another universe exists at all.
Subscribers to the Many Worlds Theory would also argue that in some of them...wait for it...One Direction never existed...*GASP*
That's a great deal of use if you're stuck in this one, which I think pretty much follows from what a universe is.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Someone warn Stephen!
In another universe.
"Hawkins, who appeared via hologram"
what?
I was wondering when Hawking would finally weigh in on this subject.
The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
Wait, what?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
The "multi universe" hypothesis is religion for physicists.
The evidence just isn't there. The models that predict it are a bit dubious and there are some solid scientific challenges to them.
Believing that things went the way you wanted them to go, in "some other universe," is cold comfort at best, and at worst it is every bit as nonsensical as believing that your departed loved ones are somehow still alive in some higher plane, or somehow came back as another person.
Until solid evidence of parallel realities is attained, every self-respecting Dawkins fan should denounce the belief as fantasy.
Stephen Hawking is amazing! I think he should have a TV special sometime just to work science in with Celebrity Gossip in a humourous way. Informative, and mix of mindless stuff with theoretical physics!
I'm assuming that this article was from April 1 and Slashdot is jus posting it now?
Why am I always in the universe where things aren't going right?
-- sudon't
Air-ride Equipped
Shit, cost of imports just went WAY the hell up.
Getting Japanese rares is hard enough, what's a single-dimesion release of The White Album going to cost me???
One Direction
I thought he was talking about entropy :-/
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Another way of putting it is an Old Nerd is consoling One Direction fans.
I think the really important thing to take away is that in some universe, all /.ers are married to perfect 10 wealthy supermodels who think geeks are the coolest thing ever, and also happen to own beer breweries.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
It is one thing to explain some theories and try to get some feedback, this isn't it. This is spreading "the hawking religion" believing in theories that aren't proven or have any evidence backing them. Who would have though that Hawking would be peddling religion to the masses.
I knew physics had to be good for something...
A fans is one direction, and now Hawkings is talking to them? He can't even talk! This makes no sense at all.
I prefer to think of the alternate universes in which boy bands actually make good music, like the Beach Boys or The Association. (Given that an alternate universe has humans in general and teenage girls in particular, I accept the existence of boy bands as a given.)
Sadly multiverse theory is so ridiculous that it easily beats any religion. It beats geo-centrism, and even a disk on a giant turtle is more reasonable.
The only people who believe in an infinite multiverse are those who do not understand infinity or tautology. The tautology paradox says that in an infinite multiverse every word in ever written or said must be true in at least one universe. (Think of Barney the purple dinosaur as being real) The visitor paradox says that in an infinite multiverse we should have visitors from at least one other universe and possibly an infinite number. Put the paradoxes two together and in an infinite multiverse exists we should be looking for Stewie and Brian from Family Guy.
Below the speed of light Special Relativity is one of the most accurate theories in physics - above the speed of light..
Isn't the multiverse theory just that given the initial conditions of the universe an additional universe is created for every possible outcome of each quantum event? This isn't an infinite number. Things that are logically impossible (probability 0) still can't happen.