Stephan Hawking and the Histoey of Time
OF STEPHEN HAWKING AND HISTORY OF TIME
It is the ultimate irony that the “finest mind alive” today is a mind held captive in a speechless, dying and withering body!
It is the mind of Stephen Hawking – world’s leading Cosmologist and most brilliant and original theoretical physicist. Presently the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, he has been proclaimed as the greatest genius of the late 20th century.
Yet, as he lies limp in his wheel-chair, weighing only 38 kilos and not even capable of lifting his head if it fell forward – his mind scans the farthest reaches of the universe, traverses the limits of time and space, postulates and proves theories about the original, expanse, nature and future of the universe, the arrow of time, the role of the Creator. Tackling not only the oft-pondered “what” of the curious child but also the seldom–considered “why”? and in the process studying what he calls – “the mind of God”.
A normal speaking, moving body, taken for granted by all of us has been denied to this brilliant mind with so much to disclose. It can see, perceive and think but, - housed like a fluttering prisoner in an immobile heap of flesh and bones, - can communicate (and that too defectively) only through the most sophisticated scientific gadgets.
It is may be because the Divine Will won’t have too many of its secrets revealed too soon.
Or is it a nemesis for overreaching – crossing into forbidden realms?
What is inspiring about Stephen Hawking is not only his works and discoveries that reached the laymen through his 1988 record – buster, best selling book: “A Brief History of Time”, but also his life and struggles, his eccentricities and the complete sense of composure even when pitted against the worst odds. “Apart from being unlucky enough to get ALS, or motor neuron disease, I have been fortunate in almost every other respect”, he writers.
Born on January 8, 1942 exactly the day Galileo, died 300 years ago – Hawking was
It is the ultimate irony that the “finest mind alive” today is a mind held captive in a speechless, dying and withering body!
It is the mind of Stephen Hawking – world’s leading Cosmologist and most brilliant and original theoretical physicist. Presently the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, he has been proclaimed as the greatest genius of the late 20th century.
Yet, as he lies limp in his wheel-chair, weighing only 38 kilos and not even capable of lifting his head if it fell forward – his mind scans the farthest reaches of the universe, traverses the limits of time and space, postulates and proves theories about the original, expanse, nature and future of the universe, the arrow of time, the role of the Creator. Tackling not only the oft-pondered “what” of the curious child but also the seldom–considered “why”? and in the process studying what he calls – “the mind of God”.
A normal speaking, moving body, taken for granted by all of us has been denied to this brilliant mind with so much to disclose. It can see, perceive and think but, - housed like a fluttering prisoner in an immobile heap of flesh and bones, - can communicate (and that too defectively) only through the most sophisticated scientific gadgets.
It is may be because the Divine Will won’t have too many of its secrets revealed too soon.
Or is it a nemesis for overreaching – crossing into forbidden realms?
What is inspiring about Stephen Hawking is not only his works and discoveries that reached the laymen through his 1988 record – buster, best selling book: “A Brief History of Time”, but also his life and struggles, his eccentricities and the complete sense of composure even when pitted against the worst odds. “Apart from being unlucky enough to get ALS, or motor neuron disease, I have been fortunate in almost every other respect”, he writers.
Born on January 8, 1942 exactly the day Galileo, died 300 years ago – Hawking was