dsmith Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 :crying: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 just came here to post this. May he rest in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Oh wow. That's a total shocker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Wow. I remember reading A Brief History of Time when I was 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Oh dear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Oh wow. That's a total shocker.To be fair, he wasn't expected to live past 1965 I'm sad to hear he has died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
displace Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Oh, no! :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 To be fair, he wasn't expected to live past 1965 I'm sad to hear he has died. I am very surprised he lived as long as he did. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Huh, he seemed like one of those people who might go on indefinitely. I also remember reading ABHT as a kid, and it also helped my when I was in university and having a problem understanding St Thomas. I thought I'd read something different to get my mind off of the problem, and there was my solution. It seems like he worked right up until the end which is nice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I too thought he'd live forever. Just bought one of his books (reading it with the 12 year old). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I too thought he'd live forever. Just bought one of his books (reading it with the 12 year old). In a way he will live forever. Even though he had ALS, he lived more than 50 years beyond predictions, so I kind of expected him to keep living. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peso Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 ...and on PI Day. RIP Mr. Hawking 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Above The Rowan Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 My 12 yr old is going to be shattered. His bedtime reading this week is Brief History of Time and he's got stars in his eyes everytime he mentions Hawkings' name. RIP. sigh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 (edited) To be fair, he wasn't expected to live past 1965 I'm sad to hear he has died. True....but fifty years later, I kind of figured that prediction was off. :) I thought I read somewhere that they believed he did not have ALS, but something else. Maybe that was Lou Gehrig. (NM was Lou Gehrig.) Interesting article on Hawking and ALS...different types of it....etc... One theory is he may have had a type of juvenile ALS which progresses much more slowly https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-als/ Edited March 14, 2018 by umsami 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I talk to the trees Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I think he'd get a giggle out of the fact that it is pi day. Requiescat in pace. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 To be fair, he wasn't expected to live past 1965 I'm sad to hear he has died. True but he passed that threshold so long ago that it seemed he'd beat the odds and have a normal life span. That he lived as long as he did is amazing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 It also happens to be Einstein's birthday. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 It’s been a sad day here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I am very surprised he lived as long as he did. I was, too. The two people I know who died of ALS died within a year or two of diagnosis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 It seems fitting that such an incredible scientists born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death would die on the 139th anniversary of Einstein's birth. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I think he'd get a giggle out of the fact that it is pi day. Requiescat in pace. It's not pi day in the UK. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 It's not pi day in the UK. shhhh don't ruin it for us 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 It's not pi day in the UK. Sadly you can never have pi day over there unless the world decides to add two more months to the calendar. ;) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 True but he passed that threshold so long ago that it seemed he'd beat the odds and have a normal life span. That he lived as long as he did is amazing.76 sounds like a normal life span to me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Very sad. Around thirty years ago, I did some waitressing for a bit at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge where he was a fellow, you could see him around in his wheel chair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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