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Stephen Hawking Calls Trump A 'Demagogue' Who Appeals 'To The Lowest Common Denominator' (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking told ITV's morning show that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican Party candidate for U.S. president, "is a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator." He said, "Gone are the days we could stand on our own against the world. We need to be part of a larger group of nations, both for our security and our trade." ABC News writes, "Stephen Hawking understands the workings of the universe -- but says he cannot fathom the popularity of Donald Trump. He went on to say that British voters should keep the United Kingdom in the European Union in a June 23 referendum, saying the EU provides essential support for British scientific research as well as its economy and security.
> One could say something similar about Trump.
Well, one of them is the Republican nominee now.
> Except for the "brilliant mind" part of course.
He made billions and defeated the entire Republican establishment. But, I'm sure he's a dummy. You could probably have done those things. I guess you're just not almost 70 yet, you'll probably have the world in your hand by then, right?
I totally agree with you about the effect of a bad president, seeing what Europe has to deal with now after eight years of Obama destroying the middle east and handing Iran nuclear weapons.
The difference is I think Trump can at least start to reverse some of the damage by not rolling over for every tin--pot dictator from here to Havana. The funny thing is, you are totally ignorant that the very reason you so irrationally despise trump is why the very elements de-stabilizing the world will irrationally fear him and thus bring about a measure of stability to the world that sorely needs some breathing room to think.
The funny thing is, it seems rather like you are backing far more of a warmonger (Hillary) than Trump will ever be. When the first Iranian nuke detonates in an American city, do a little thought experiment as to what Hillary would do, vs Trump... Trump would at least listen to the council of the military, Hillary would go off on some Libya quality exercise of country annihilation. Hillary has already demonstrated what she would do, yet you still back her.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Not quite - the best science can ever do is create a model that has predictive accuracy. That is - a model that successfully describes the universe given the data that is available, but also successfully predicts the universe when new data becomes available.
That is what Einstein did with relativity: he created a model that explained known data, but also predicted effects such as gravitational lensing and Mercury's perihelion wobble before the technology existed to allow those effects to be observed. It is the reason Einstein was a great scientist.
It is for this very reason that while I consider Newton a great mathematician, I only consider him a good scientist.
You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part.
Nope. They are listening to Trump because most of his supporters are xenophobic mystic ultra nationalists... and he presents a xenophobic mystic ultra nationalist agenda.