Stephen Hawkings Curiosity

[AlanFromWichita]

I think hes a very bitter man - after all he has ALS and can only move his eyes and relies heavily on others just to exist - I feel sorry for him - and wonder how I would feel or any of you would feel in the same position.

Hes a very intelligent man but his ALS plays on his faith as it would in most people.

I also feel sorry for him, and I’m very impressed at what he has been able to accomplish. I can’t even imagine living under his circumstances.

That said, though, he knows very well he is in a position of authority and is listened to all over the world. He is sitting in the same position as Isaac Newton did. He knows that many people consider his word as gospel. I think he is intelligent enough that he should know the difference between science and faith. If he doesn’t, then with all of his intelligence he still has a thinking problem.

One of the things I try to do personally, and it served me well in my engineering career, is to always be aware of what I don’t know, and when I was just speculating, giving my personal opinion, or quoting someone else I hadn’t checked up on for myself, I was very clear about it. When I signed off on a design on which lives depend, I was very clear under what conditions the design would work. Of course, even when engineers do that, they are sometimes ignored or silenced by fools, such as the murderers (IMO) that ordered the Space Shuttle Challenger to launch despite protests from the engineers that it was too cold for the O-ring. (I have personal feelings about that, especially after I read the Risk Assessments that were in place for the O-ring, before the shuttle was even built.)

In Hawking’s case, if he were to say, “my personal belief is this,” then I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Maybe he does say that; I haven’t read much of his work myself. But if he says that science says this and that means there is no God, then I really think he should know better than that or it calls the rest of his work into question.

To the comments of another poster about how it all began, that is beyond my grasp. I agree it makes no sense to say there was nothing and then it exploded. And if it were all energy, where did the energy come from? For that matter, an eternal God is also beyond my grasp. I can think of an “infinite” future, but not an infinite past. I’m too hung up on cause/effect to grasp those concepts. We have relativity that reconciles mass v energy, but as far as I know there is no theory even being considered that reconciles something with nothing.

Alan

 

[sharptiger999]

Any person moderately informed about theology and religion should realize that this doesn’t convince a person of faith, as God exists outside time and space.

Hence, the black hole is outside of time and space.

 

[Deconi]

Personally I believe in a big bang. Not in The Big Bang theory at large since it is filled with loops. But A big bang theory, in that, the universe had to have a common origin, and came to being in its current state through slow but steady expansion, as opposed to the universe simply at be. The underlying details, Science and Theology is still working out.

Besides if I was God I would totally create existence with an explosion.

That ‘explosion’ may be found with some work toward examining the probable properties of the ‘voice’ of God!

We can walk into a room and use the properties of our voices and sound to turn things on!

If there was NOTHING prior to His speaking, (exampled in “Let there be Light”) what could the ‘properties’ of His voice be? Those ‘properties’ can be theorised given what we know currently although several unknown elements must still exist…as we have limited intel. For instance we know The Word existed before He Spoke!..etc.

As celestial bodies are ‘born’ and ‘expire,’ and the universe continue to expand, are those spoken commands still ‘audible’ and eternal as He is?

Hmm…wondering out loud now.

 

[Terraius]

Hence, the black hole is outside of time and space.

This was actually disproven by Quantum physicists after Stephen Hawking made this assertion.