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Ch4 9pm Stephen Hawking, Master of the Universe PART TWO tonight.


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I know it has gone downhill a bit but this is what's on Horizon tonight if you're interested

 

I really hope they manage to broadcast a watchable program tonight. I think the whole series thus far this year has been pathetic. I normally find myself turning off after half an hour nowadays. :(

 

I remember watching Horizon when I was a child in the 1980's - those were the glory days.

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Thought Hawkings parting statement was a classic. When asked had he any regrets about his professional career he said he regretted not forming a theory on quantum gravity (or some other sciency jargon) but that if he had it wouldn't have left much for anyone else to do!! Gotta love the cocky bastid!!!

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Very enjoyable, i can't get my head round how people can come up with these theories then spoend much of their waking life trying to prove or disprove them.

There was a program on earlier in the year around the same theme, a young professor was the narrator and presenter that was a good watch too.

 

I am looking forward to seeing what happens when they switch on the LHC (?) machine later this year, maybe a theory of everything can be discovered :)

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im sure it will be repeated mate,its prob available on catch up tv as well,

worth watching ;)

 

Forgot about that i-program/on demand stuff. Never used it before. It's free right? I'm away next week so gonna miss that one too, so I hope they are available!

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Its a real shame that Gods work will kill him before Stevens work proves God doesn't exist.

 

yeh exactly,i mean he was born not long after einsteins death,. who the hell will replace Stephen ?

Altho saying that,there might be someone growing up right now who will replace him,.. or he might live long enough for the cure for his disease to be found,. he might only need another 5 years after all before a cure is found.who knows. ?

total immense genius tho.

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was anyone else suprised by the demonstration of the relative distance of the electron from the actual atom?

i was gobsmacked.

 

That's what all this research is about at paces like Cern. If everything is made of atoms, yet atoms themselves have huge voids of nothingness inside them, then the vast majority of what we know as space is comprised of nothing at all. or summat.

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yeh whats that about ?

i mean born in Shrewsbury, speaks with an american accent !!

 

I didn't realise that.

June 23 1942, he's getting on a bit.

 

This was interesting.

At the celebration of his 65th birthday on January 8, 2007, Hawking announced his plans for a zero-gravity flight in 2007 to prepare for a sub-orbital spaceflight in 2009 on Virgin Galactic's space service. Billionaire Richard Branson pledged to pay all expenses for the flight, costing an estimated $163,100,000. Stephen Hawking's zero-gravity flight of Zero Gravity Corporation, during which he experienced weightlessness eight times, took place on April 26, 2007.
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