He certainly inspires me. When I was diagnosed with ALS I too was given 2 years to live. That was 11 years ago. I won't survive 55 years (I'm 64) but I hope to be around for a while yet
Abbie Thoms I admire people with als what they go through and yet they still plod on regardless there blave strong and great will power to survive may be hard but they never give up I wish I could have gave steven hawkings a hug he has great willpower,
You only learn one way to make something work if you get it right. If you get something wrong, then the future has less work to do. Being wrong can teach you more than being right.
Not too long ago I got called several different kinds of stupid for suggesting that a scientist should be happy about being wrong, and in fact should be thinking about ways to disprove what he thinks is right. A scientist who absolutely must be right (or he'll lose his funding for example) will be in danger of being right at any cost. I just don't see what's so hard to understand about this.
Okay sure I'm very late, but Joe! You forgot the most important thing about Stephen Hawking by far! He is the only person to have played as himself on an episode of Star Trek!
@@dewayneweaver2744 I'm very unfamiliar with Star Trek, but if the A.I. mimicked him exactly, then, especially considering that he couldn't move his physical body anyway, it _could_ be considered to be him actually playing himslef.
@@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718 That would be a resounding 'No'. Adam West also played himself on the Big Bang Theory, and probably on the Simpsons as well.
If anyone tries to argue against designing a world to include all people, especially those with disabilities, Steven Hawking is a great example of what our universe stands to lose.
Even thou I believe in the right to choose abortion or not I sometimes think similarly that what great minds and contributors to society that we may be loosing. Another MLK, an Einstein, Hawking and even a Marilyn Monroe and on the darker side, a Manson or Dahmer.
@@TommoCarroll Stephen Hawking abused children on the child abuse islands of Jeffrey Epstein. It came out in unsealed documents with pretrial judgments of the on-going Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution.
Good show, old chap, and may you rest in peace, with the knowledge that you helped make the world a better informed place, the most noble life that can be led. Also, Joe have you ever done a video about Carl Sagan? I often feel like Carl Sagan awareness is tragically fading these days. Everyone knows about Cosmos and the Voyager plaque, but he did a lot of other great things too, and in my opinion he was also one of the best science communicators of modern history, alongside people like Stephen Hawking. It seems unfair to me that Carl died so young. I think the world would have been markedly improved if he had been here to help us understand, and to spark curiosity and wonder in young minds. His legacy lives through cosmos, but imagine if he had a RU-vid channel. That's why I love channels like this one, because it's nice to see that the spirit of people like Carl and Stephen lives on, as long as there are those with ears to hear, and minds to wonder.
Of course Hawking's biggest contribution was not to science but to people. His story inspired all of us. He was (still is) the most well known scientist of today. He lived a full happy life in spite of his illness.
I respect Steven Hawking but his stand that God does not exist when his own space time thereoms prove there exists a transcendent causal agent shows him to be a fool leading others to follow him to hell.
@@tedbates1236 Isn't it funny how one of his books was called "The Grand Design"? Sort of implies a designer now doesn't it. The funny thing... People thing he was smart LOL.
Stephen Hawking abused children on the child abuse islands of Jeffrey Epstein. It came out in unsealed documents with pretrial judgments of the on-going Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution.
Stephen Hawking abused children on the child abuse islands of Jeffrey Epstein. It came out in unsealed documents with pretrial judgments of the on-going Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution.
Hawkins changed the world from a wheelchair and paralyzed, yet everyday we see people complaining about trivial things. Really puts our lives in perspective. Great video Joe!
@@ronschlorff7089 lol sure! But it is almost impossible to tell where the mountain came from. We all can spew some BS but that doesn't mean it is the truth. Space is very huge and we still havent been able to move past mars. I agree we can come up with theories/hypothesis but those will be unproven until we have fixed proof.
@@rachelmatthew6771 Not getting past Mars? So all the USA's deep space probes to the outer planets including Pluto didn't exist? And the 2 Voyagers which left the solar system are a joke to you. Based on your comments, yeah, something sure is a Joke!
You're forgetting he was also absolutely fucking loaded and had a maid and the excuse... the never ending excuse... He was also groomed since birth to be brilliant and he was obedient to it. He also didn't exactly fathom truths, he fathomed hard to argue guesses with knowledge the poor and able bodied can't afford to memorize and toy with guesses on. Do you know what a trickshot is? Ball and a cup? It was literally that with words. He created nothing. He found no laws. He did not change the world. He wasn't an inventor. He was just a famous person. Miley Cyrus is famous too. He did nothing to help humanity. Change the world my ass.
I finally discovered this channel, and let me tell you, during this crisis it's been a lifesaver for me, emotionally. This was an *amazing* tribute to an otherworldly intellect known as Stephen Hawking. Well done.
People say good comedy is about timing but Hawking was that funny even with little control over the timing of his dialogue he could still crack great jokes and respond quickly with witty remarks :)
Stephen Hawking abused children on the child abuse islands of Jeffrey Epstein. It came out in unsealed documents with pretrial judgments of the on-going Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution.
Stephen Hawking abused children on the child abuse islands of Jeffrey Epstein. It came out in unsealed documents with pretrial judgments of the on-going Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution.
Michio Kaku. Brilliant and the best scientist/science communicator I've ever heard. Also, they should quote you "Even if he lost science won. And that's all that mattered." R.I.P. Stephen Hawking
volatile0701 Michio Kaku is pretty smart and did work on string theory, but I would say he’s not much different from NDGT: a much better science communicator than a scientist.
Jason Martin that's a very valid point. I have to admit that I have a weak spot for MK and for some reason NDGT has always rubbed me wrong. So they are both better communicators but I believe in the scientist department I give the nod to Kaku. But I'm also a supporter of ST so there ya go haha.
To be honest, for a long time I ned Kaku only as "that smart sounding guy from all the documentaries", didn't even realize he was such a well-regarded scientist. Says a lot about his skills at communicating knowledge while staying extremely relateable.
a couple of months prior to Mr.Hawking's announcement of "why he fears AI" , Kaku had announced a facebook q&a. i was looking forward to it, and when it started i asked what he thinks would happen if we dropped some robots on a planet with only one command; to reproduce and better themselves when possible. never got a response. that rubbed me wrong!
His biggest contribution to mankind was that he never gave up and was a perfect role model for people who got hit hard in live. Not matter what,he did what he loved and mastered it
Wow! What a fabulous tribute to an amazing individual. A great man with a super sense of humour. Never took himself to seriously. The right way to be imho. As someone said Joe, you may not be a scientist but you make the subject fun, enjoyable but most of all understandable. Thank you sir. Definitely a good show old chap.....you know we Brits don’t say that.....right? Keep up the fabulous work
@@joescott Stephen Hawking abused children on the child abuse islands of Jeffrey Epstein. It came out in unsealed documents with pretrial judgments of the on-going Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution.
Some people wonder why he never won a Nobel prize. In truth, Hawking has made predictions that have yet to be observed and some predictions take a long time to observe (ask Peter Higgs). Unfortunately his death means he never will get a Nobel prize :(
Aside from that, the nature of Hawking's life, it's style and constraints, made him a theorizer rather than an experimenter - recall that Einstein did not win a Nobel Prize for any of his four relativity papers, because he did not conduct any of the experiments that validated his theoretical work.
Hope Joe's clone makes a comeback👀 Man, Stephen Hawking was incredible, he beat the odds, was smart and funny, he had it all😍 I always wished to meet him but just knowing both of us lived in the same time frame is awesome.
I agree that the time travelling party does not prove anything. But it was a humorous show. What a great memorial video, Joe! He was a force! Of that I think all can agree.
It proved that time travelers either didn't know about the party, didn't want to come to the party, or couldn't come to the party (because of reasons, including that time travel doesn't work at all).
Helge Moulding I tend to believe that a hypothesis that "proves" every possible outcome proves nothing. ;-) It proves that time travel is possible or it's not. You could even conceive that the invitations got lost during the time that it took to figure out time travel and then to build a workable model. Were those to whom he invited even still alive? Had their heirs and assignees simply tossed the invitations? Who knows. I still think it was humorous, though.
There would be strict laws on time travel, what would probably be allowed is only watching the past with something like google earth. Interacting and walking around in the past would be too risky.
Lovely video! Indeed, good show ol'chap :) I think more people like him will emerge in the next decades. He has definitely inspired many generations of scientists and communicators
Regarding Dr. Hawking's time-travel party: Instead of throwing a party, I have always thought that Dr. Hawking and other physicists should build and maintain a computer solely for the purpose of receiving data from the future. Rules: Any message received should include an atomic timestamp encoded within the message, name(s) of the senders, location of origin along with a simple message that will not create any sort of butterfly effect that would prevent the message from being sent in the first place. Moreover, the individuals maintaining that computer should agree to not contact that sender until at least one day AFTER the message is actually sent. I suspect that the easiest way to prove "time-travel" with be to send something with near-zero mass -- like data. The computer can always be modified with various components publicized so that interested scientists could know how to "contact" the computer at a past moment in time. After "first contact," the rules for information would be altered to include a reverse "Prime Directive" -- meaning that any such data can be used for the betterment of the recipients place in time going forward. In other words, advances in science could be sent back and would be used regardless of how the future might change. Moreover, if someone sent back information pertaining to a dark event in (future) history, steps would be taken to prevent the event. I think that a symbolic prize should be offered (i.e., the Time Travel Pioneer Prize) that would name such individuals as the first known time-travelers. ~~~ As for science communicators: I'll miss Dr. Hawking like others before my time missed people like Dr. Carl Sagan or, of course, Dr. Einstein. I'm not too keen on Neil de Grasse Tyson. He is certainly a bright man; however, his fame is staked on little more than his degree (there are many, many PhDs in Physics who are more accomplished). Tyson just isn't accomplished enough to lend weight to his lessons (no matter how good they might be) and appears to be more enamored with his own status as a celebrity than actual scientific prowess. In fact, I'd argue that Joe Scott is a better science communicator than Dr. Tyson or guys Bill Nye. I can't think of a scientist off hand who could succeed . I suppose that the fact that this question exists is evidence that there are no viable candidates. There aren't many scientists widely known by society on the basis of their scientific achievement. Einstein wasn't publicly famous until he was so accomplished in physics. The same was true of Sagan and Hawking. Dr. Kip Thorne (mentioned in the video) is an amazing physicist -- a friend of both Hawking and Sagan. In fact, he is one of the most accomplished physicists who is generally respected by nearly all leading physicists today. However, his lectures and talks are generally a bit cerebral for the general public. He is also older than Stephen Hawking and isn't too far from outliving the current life expectancy for males. He was a co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for work with the detection of gravitational waves. I can't really think of any other accomplished physicists at this point in time (which is sad). However, like this video states, a science communicator doesn't necessarily have to be a highly accomplished scientist. Individuals who weren't nearly as accomplished obviously inspired people like Einstein, Hawking and Sagan. Perhaps the "next Stephen Hawking" is a young subscriber to Answers with Joe. Maybe they'll be the first to send a message to the past and let us know.
6:16 Woah! Mind blown! If you go back close enough to the Big Bang time gets taken over by space. So if there is no time, the universe had no beginning. It's like asking what is north of the North Pole--the question doesn't make sense. When did the universe begin? There was no time, so the question doesn't make sense. Woah.
Sean Carroll is a good science communicator, but nowhere near the mental ability of Hawking. Susskind himself is pretty good at both, but I guess he's kinda old now. Witten is probably the smartest physicist alive today, but he's not a good science communicator.
Stephen Hawking abused children on the child abuse islands of Jeffrey Epstein. It came out in unsealed documents with pretrial judgments of the on-going Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution.
As a few have said I believe his greatest achievement is as a role model to others in showing what is possible even when life has dealt you shitty cards. This may be a bit of an unpopular opinion but I think both his ability to communicate complex ideas and his contributions to physics are a bit overrated at times. I don’t mean that to detract from the man in any way whatsoever. He was still a genius and still made important contributions. But he was no Newton or Einstein and his ability to communicate I believe is more an ability to inspire and awe. Which to be honest is just as important if not more so. Having read some of his popular works I will personally say that I’ve read much clearer and easier to understand summaries of the same topics. But that doesn’t mean he was not a wonderful human being and important as a inspiration to us all!
TRUE STORY: When I was in college studying engineering my fellow engineers and I, nothing Stephen Hawking's horrible condition, started a "dead pool" to see who could predict the date of his death the most closely. That was in 1977 ... and several of the participants in that dead pool perished long before Dr. Hawking.
I know this is heresy, but I've always thought that for each black hole there is another universe inflating on the over side. In this way, energy, mass, time, and information are conserved.
Thanks for making this video Joe. This subject hits home for me as my Mother has ALS and she is in her 6th year. When I found out Hawking passed away, I hurt and cried. He was one of the examples to look up to for not only surviving as long as he did but also for proving that when you're told your life is over you can truly continue to do great things. It matters that you do everything to the best of your abilities even in the face of death otherwise you're not living.
as one of your avid followers, when you said "say it with me" i automatically respond to say "good show, old chap" without thinking, wow. keep making vids.
I know I'm late to the party, but I think Brian Cox is the best Scientist and Communicator. Such a good scientist that he leads the LHC at CERN. Not to mention that he's the staff science expert for Doctor Who, and if that show hasn't taught me,and countless others, more about time travel, I don't know what has. That should be worth something on its own.
Does anyone ever wish they were smart enough to be a scientist......Not einsten smart.....but at least a dude with a nice paper that will contribute something.....No one???......I don't get why I want that.....I mean only smart people would want it right ......And I am not smart.
There is 1 flaw to his time traveler experiment. anyone that figures out time travel would want to be secretive. nefarious inventors would want the power all to themselves and good inventors would understand that a world finding out about it could fall in to the wrong hands and cause all sorts of horrible things. just people knowing for sure time travel is possible means the world would have a race to create it to own the world and time.
For a long time I thought that just as Einstein was the smartest physicist alive in his day, Stephen Hawking was the smartest in ours. I then heard some world-class physicists saying that SH was smart, top-10 smart, but by no means the _smartest_ . Edward Witten (the guy who unified string theory into M-theory) was generally regarded as the most brilliant physicist around. Witten is perfectly healthy, has an odd affect, speaks with bit of a lisp, is not good in an interview, and (as far as I know) hasn't written any books--so few people outside of the physics world know who he is. I read _A Brief History of Time_ and, honestly, was disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it was a fine book, but I've read better explanations of these subjects by other authors: Carl Sagan, Brian Greene, and Martin Rees come to mind. _ABHoT_ won all kinds of awards and had so much buzz that I had expected something spectacular and was disappointed. I'm convinced that Hawking was so famous because of his disease, that he was wheelchair-bound, and had to talk with a computer voice. He deserves all the credit in the world for his accomplishments despite his disease, but I think the contention that he was the *best physicist in the world* and the *best science explainer in the world* is overblown just because he was a celebrity.
When I was younger and in another universe, many mysteries were answered from watching Johnny Sokko and his flying robot. Thank You Stephen..peace from Texas
So science says the universe had no beginning/ origin? So I guess people believing in a creator God saying that God had no beginning, seems can be backed up by science then.
Hi Joe. Great video! As you said, Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo and died on March 14th, which was Einstein's birthday. I’m not sure if it was mentioned in any of the comments but March 14th is also known as “Pi Day” 3/14 ~ 3.14 (the math symbol holiday). A great math concept is simple, beautiful and complex all at the same time. Pi is one of those concepts and I would describe Hawking and Einstein the same way.
Joe have you thought about doing a video about the inventor of curiosity? I mean of course double Nobel laureate Marie Curie, after whom curiosity is named.
Neil Degrasse Tyson is a scientist (Astrophysicist) He graduated from both Harvard university and Columbia and did post doctoral research at Princeton. He just happens to be very good as a science communicator much like Michio Kaku who is one of the creators of string field theory and one of the best science communicators. Joe also communicates science like a boss!
When visiting my home town of London, I sometimes visit Westminster Abbey to pay my respects to many of the people interred there. It’s humbling to be able to stand just a few feet away from some of the greatest people in history. Sir Isaac Newton in particular was one I never missed dropping by. However, this last visit to Newton was a shocker. As I turned away to leave Newton, I glanced down and saw Stephen Hawking’s grave, I had completely forgotten that he was interred there and I immediately started weeping uncontrollably like a young child. Although I understood little of his science he clearly meant more to me than I had realized.
not , , , quite .he was embarrased by this hype when among his peers.for the less than 20 yrs he was productive he was one of the dozen or so physicists at the cutting edge,and was just an average member of that group. that said,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,being ranked 8 or 9 in the world for 15 years in theoretical physics is,,,,,,,,,,an incredibly impressive feat!!!!! , then you consider he did it while in absolute medical misery.
Stephen Hawking was a gift to humanity. Our understanding of the Universe would not be as advanced as it is now were it not for his contributions to science. R.I.P
II consider you, David Tong, Ed Witten, and Sean Carroll the most interesting and informative people on the Internet. My brain is a better place for you guys' work! Thanks!
If you had a time machine, why would you bother visiting an ancient professor from the past when you can be anywhere? Realistically, he hadn't even figured out time travel yet, so what could he possibly teach you? Lovely man though, he had a way to explain the complex that few people could even come close to. I think that's what I liked about him the most.
Answer: the same as to many flawed hypotheses around the Fermi Paradox - it is likely one specific time traveller might not want to go back to Hawking's party, but it is highly unlikely to say that about all of them. Unless time travel backwards (or at least before the point of the invention of the time machine) is impossible.
Saurav Raj: Where do you take that from? It's a fictional device. If there will ever be a real counterpart, it very, very likely will have limitations.
Because if you look away from all the paradoxes rendering backward timetravel next to impossible, you would be able to exist in multiple time periods. Techically 300 versions of yourself could enter his party at the same time, if you was just to go back and fourth to the same date 300 times. This create a paradox tho as then you would never appear alone and never appear with 300 copies similtaniously, rendering it both possible and impossible at the same time. Even tho you travelled back to the age of the dinosaur, you could still always travel back to that party whenever you wanted. Afterall, you have all the time in the world.
What I'd take from it is this: 1) Time travel isn't possible, 2) Stephen Hawking's invitation will be forgotten before it's invented, 3) Humanity will die out before it's invented, 4) If any form of time travel is possible, it might only be possible to observe the past and not interact with it, 5) Time travel is possible but it somehow spawns a new reality, and the time traveller would be present only in this new reality. 6) There might be strict rules set that will prevent time travellers from interacting with the past, especially for mundane reasons such as a professor's joke. 7) Time travellers have no reason to do that.
Thank you Joe for perhaps the best resume of Stephen Hawking that I’ve ever seen or heard. I’m a new follower of your channel and have been impressed with the simple way you deliver an enormous amount of information. Sometimes I have to go back two or three times to catch every word you said because there was too much packed into that particular phrase. The episode on survivability on Mars was particularly poignant. We tend to think the hardest part is getting there when in fact it’s staying there. Thanks!
Perhaps his greatest accomplishment will be his method for detecting parallel universes which was almost ready to publish. A sad and happy ending in the same time, depending on which universe you live in.
We are fortunate to have lived during the time of this great man's contributions to science. We are also very fortunate to live during a time when medical science has advanced enough to allow this man to continue long enough to provide us with all these insights into science.
they are no longer "news" papers.... they are partisan rags that don't deserve the name journals or those that work for them, journalists... there are more people who are on the internet that deserve those titles, like Joe... Thanks Joe for all the great news you broadcast to the World... Good show young lad !! yeah, at 200,000 years old, I can say that :D
It's already been essentially proven that if time travel is possible, it is only possible to travel back to the point when the tine machine was invented and not before. It is highly unlikely that any other form of time travel to the past is possible. It is also unlikely that this form of time travel is possible, but there is less evidence to prove that it is impossible.
It is highly unlikely that any pro scientist will ever prove anything time-travel-related rigorously; 'cuz you know, CTC = time-travel and we're done, r8?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that traverseable closed timelike curves are not excluded by General Relativity, but they aren't guaranteed either. There are solutions that form Einstein-Rosen bridges and other CTCs, but that doesn't mean that anything like that can actually be created and traversed without violating some other law of nature. Most things that are possible in general relativity, even things like black holes that Einstein himself didn't think were real early on, were eventually found. But not everything. Tachyons are a notable example of something that most physicists think is not real even though it could theoretically exist within Einstein's theory.
"not excluded [...] but they aren't guaranteed either" Oh yes, they exist - and even if we knew of only one example, it could still be a huge problem; in doing research for a time-travel video, I compiled a shitload of solutions which have them, and those are just 'textbook cases', it's a really general behavior "without violating some other law of nature" I would call 'energy conservation' a 'law of nature', but an 'energy condition defined only to make proving theorems easier' - not so much "Tachyons [...] exist within Einstein's theory" Actually tachyons (and for that matter particles with continuous spin) are not a prediction of Einstein's, but Wigner's - and in the context of SR; can't dream what 'tachyons' would look like in GR, specially considering we are nowhere close to a half-decent theory of Hawking/Unruh rads
Iago Silva Interesting. I'm afraid you've gone a couple steps past my level of understanding. Hopefully on of the great science communicators I watch on youtube, like PBS Spacetime or Looking Glass Universe will cover some of those topics. (More likely the former, as his expertise is in relativity. The latter is less well known, but she does high level quantum stuff better than anybody and I highly recommend her channel. She doesn't post often because she's busy with her Ph.D, but she says she will start posting more soon.)
I had the honor of meeting him he was such a great man he was inspiration to me and I will always remember him for being a great man. RIP Steven Hawking.
I agree with you putting the Big Bang singularity theory as possibly his biggest scientific accomplishment. That's a REALLY big deal- you could say a truly universal accomplishment (hehe)
Professor Hawking was my mentor. I got my perspective from him. Now, my field is Biochemistry but I couldn't bring myself to respect someone as much as Stephen Hawking in the field of science.
Stephen Hawking is my favorite Physicist can appreciate Value and Worth thanks to Hawking. Important here from the Hawking-verse, one - Black Holes do Not Get Smaller, and two - Empty Space is Not Empty Space...(Elfen Lied Vectors Anyone?) Heh cool stuff. Science won despite the tragic new absence is also something very good for Hawking too. The rightful Heir guess should be James Watson.
