Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge, makes remarks at an event marking the 50th anniversary of NASA, Monday, April 21, 2008.
CTV.ca | Stephen Hawking accepts post at Ontario institute
Well there you go.
Stephen Hawking accepts post at Ontario institute
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Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge, makes remarks at an event marking the 50th anniversary of NASA, Monday, April 21, 2008.
CTV.ca | Stephen Hawking accepts post at Ontario institute
Well there you go.
Exactly.
Couldn't agree more.
Hawking has been back and forth on this one for quite a while.
Could involve his personal political views perhaps.
Now they need to work on getting a top notch supercomputer. UofT is working on a 300+ terraflop (floating point operation) beast, which would move it from the 50 something fastest to the top ten in the world. The fastest in the world is the Roadrunner at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, 1105 terraflops, or 1.105 petaflops, which means 1,105 trillion calculations each second!!!
That's great news! He creates a whole new level of interest where ever he goes. Suppose the Discovery Channel and the Ontario Science Centre will get him out to some special event?
I know I'd have a lot to input into the debate, what with my arse alone can have a distorted apparent horizon after I eat a lot of spicy food, the methane expelled alone can void a large area of any known matter due to its toxic traits.
"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it." Richard Feynman
Indirect evidence and physical models can be pretty compelling. It's 103 years later, and Einstein is finally proven right.
That's an interesting achievement but black holes remain theoretical.
darkbeaver, most of the observations in astronomy remain uncertain and theoretical, so what is your point?
Everything, starting from the masses of the stars, red shift, distances of stars and galaxies from the sun etc., remain conjectural.
However, the existence of black holes has been predicted by astronomy, it presence is integrally woven into the tapestry of Cosmology.
So are black holes theoretical? Sure. But is there very good indication that they do exist? Again, sure.
darkbeaver, most of the observations in astronomy remain uncertain and theoretical, so what is your point?
Everything, starting from the masses of the stars, red shift, distances of stars and galaxies from the sun etc., remain conjectural.
However, the existence of black holes has been predicted by astronomy, it presence is integrally woven into the tapestry of Cosmology.
So are black holes theoretical? Sure. But is there very good indication that they do exist? Again, sure.
Jeeez. Perhaps this posting of Hawking's may be a trigger that prods Canada and its provinces into doing some decent research into all manners of things like dumping dependency on oil and many other matters. Gawd forbid that we actually leap ahead of little places like Germany and Portugal in the realm of alternate energy research or something.
The National research council is ramping up bio-diesel research. The Sandy Cove research station, it used to be a phenomenal aquaculture facility, and it still is, but soon won't be Using the algal bright box bioreactors to culture algae for oils.
Using the algal bright box bioreactors to culture algae for oils.
Ugh. I would much rather see something besides combustibles as a fuel source. Like solar energy, wind, even nuclear.