Re: Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (C4, 03/03/08, 21:00-22:00)


"Jeff Lawrence" <jeff.lawrence@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 4 Mar, 11:47, "gs" <g...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Mark Hewitt" <nom...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Surely it but follows. Indeed, far from leaving
him uncreative conceptually, he perhaps does
enjoy a clarity of thought unfettered by emotion
that has contributed to the unique drive and logic
he is famous for.

He is "dead clever" right enough. But there are plenty of people as
smart
or smarter than him, but they aren't as instantly recognisable so don't
get the same publicity (or indeed don't want it)

Okay then, name ten people smarter that Stephen Hawkins in the field of
theoretical physics.

I've limited my list to just those who are still living, out of
symmpathy to you (as I then cannot use the likes of Einstein, Newton,
Bohr, Schrodinger, Planck, Maxwell, Lagrange, Sala, Feynman and many
other dead ones).
Peter Higgs
John Wheeler
Gerard 't Hooft
Martin Veltman
Yoichiro Nambu
Sheldon Glashow
Chen Ning Yang
David Gross
Murray Gell-Mann
Steven Weinberg
A pretty impressive list, I think you'll agree.

An impressive list yes, but are they smarter that Hawking? (I would not have
minded if you'd included the others either.) I do wonder how many of those
listed alive or dead would have had the strength of character Hawking has
shown to carry on, and how many of us if we'd been put in a similar position
as he was would have just curled up into a little ball and switched off.


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