@Syamsudin Irawan
Opens your head and swaps brains :P@Ninji
Hawking was a brilliant scientist, but he was not alone. There’s often a quote that’s passed around science and math, and I think it’s attributed to Issac Newton. I don’t know the exact, but it goes something like “I can see father because I stand on the shoulders of giants.” Those giants would be scientists of the past who built a foundation for Issac to create his many contributions.Stephen was no different. He took the work of past and present greats and added to it. In fact, he’s quite famous for being wrong as much as he is being right, and he famously made a bet with another cosmologist about the existence of black holes I believe where he actually bet that they didn’t exist. He felt they existed, but wanted to bet against them anyway. I believe it was because of this bet that he formulated Hawking radiation.@Ninji
I can hear the ElectroBoom guy screaming now.
@Nittany Discord
In sports, there’s a distinction made between Hall-of-Famers and GOATs (greatest of all time). Hawking was a first-ballot hall-of-fame scientist, but he was not a GOAT. He was not a great scientist in the way that Newton and Einstein were great scientists. What he was was a great science teacher, and that’s just as important. If you’re going to train the next generation of scientists, help engineers to make use of the latest discoveries, or fend off the advances of superstitious fools, you need someone who can communicate science and its findings to the masses. And that can be just as challenging, if not more so, than mere scientific research.
