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Into the Universe
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| DJRYAN™ |
Stephen Hawkings - Into the Universe is now on Netflix. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it already.
Very informative from one of the leaders in Cosmology and Astro Physics. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| just because i think you're a cockhead...hawking isn't close to being a leader in cosmology or astro physics. he's just the most famous to us average joes. |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| I do believe he's as distinguished as they come being the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology which is the leading institute (globally) in astro physics and cosmology. |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
just because i think you're a cockhead...hawking isn't close to being a leader in cosmology or astro physics. he's just the most famous to us average joes. |
he's a leader in my heart |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
just because i think you're a cockhead...hawking isn't close to being a leader in cosmology or astro physics. he's just the most famous to us average joes. |
I don't think you are giving him enough credit. Lately he has been reduced to a talking robot that speaks at conventions about aliens and the future of space travel, but before that he made significant contributions to the study of quantum gravity, and the idea that black holes should emit radiation. A Brief History of Time is jam-packed with all sorts of physics mumbo jumbo. |
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| Ted Promo |
| Susskind > Hawking |
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| kadomony |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
Hawkings |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
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| DJRYAN™ |
I heard some things that stood out when I was watching this.
1) they found a planet that resembles our Earth 20 light years away. Traveling at Voyager I's speed, 11 miles per second, it would take nearly 350,000 years to reach it.
2) that time travel is possible. IF we were to build a train around the world that could travel at 99.9% the speed of light. If we were to travel on that train for a year, 10 years would've past for everyone else (or something like that). |
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