Stephen Hawking "very ill"

[gravy]

He'd probably have been well knownish MND or not if hawking radiation had ever been detected. Which it hasn't.

[Public Hermit]

Looks like he's going to be OK!

Hope they keep him in till Monday, I'm going to Addenbrookes hospital (where Hawking is) with work. Sure he wouldn't mind if I nipped in to see him...

[Portland]

Looks like he's going to be OK!

Hope they keep him in till Monday, I'm going to Addenbrookes hospital (where Hawking is) with work. Sure he wouldn't mind if I nipped in to see him...

I find Celebs are not the most receptive in hospital (with fair reason.)

Michael Vaughan was in the room next to me having one of his knee ops when I was having my back done and I think he got a bit bored of Joe Public wellwishers while he was in pain.

The weirdest bit was waking up in the recovery room with the morphine pump ready to go and thinking "Fuck me, these are good drugs, this bloke next to me looks like the England captain."

Hope Dr H carries on trucking.

[Public Hermit]

The weirdest bit was waking up in the recovery room with the morphine pump ready to go and thinking "Fuck me, these are good drugs, this bloke next to me looks like the England captain."

Nah I wouldn't bother the good professor! It's just that it would be kind of cool to think he was there while I was there. If he had any kind of procedures done, they may have been booked through software I wrote

[teamonkey]

He'd probably have been well knownish MND or not if hawking radiation had ever been detected. Which it hasn't.

If the LHC hadn't fallen on its arse we probably would have seen it by now. It's quite likely to occur - if not, Einstein's gravity gets thrown out and black holes condense to infinitely massive, infinitely small points, which is pretty implausible and breaks a lot of stuff.

[gravy]

He'd probably have been well knownish MND or not if hawking radiation had ever been detected. Which it hasn't.

If the LHC hadn't fallen on its arse we probably would have seen it by now. It's quite likely to occur - if not, Einstein's gravity gets thrown out and black holes condense to infinitely massive, infinitely small points, which is pretty implausible and breaks a lot of stuff.

Or something else is true

[betamax]

He'd probably have been well knownish MND or not if hawking radiation had ever been detected. Which it hasn't.

If the LHC hadn't fallen on its arse we probably would have seen it by now. It's quite likely to occur - if not, Einstein's gravity gets thrown out and black holes condense to infinitely massive, infinitely small points, which is pretty implausible and breaks a lot of stuff.

Or something else is true

That's quantum for you.

[Absolute_Zero]

He'd probably have been well knownish MND or not if hawking radiation had ever been detected. Which it hasn't.

If the LHC hadn't fallen on its arse we probably would have seen it by now. It's quite likely to occur - if not, Einstein's gravity gets thrown out and black holes condense to infinitely massive, infinitely small points, which is pretty implausible and breaks a lot of stuff.

You think the LHC will produce micro black holes? Surely the energies involved are far too low. Otherwise, Hawking Radiation better bloody exist.

[betamax]

He'd probably have been well knownish MND or not if hawking radiation had ever been detected. Which it hasn't.

If the LHC hadn't fallen on its arse we probably would have seen it by now. It's quite likely to occur - if not, Einstein's gravity gets thrown out and black holes condense to infinitely massive, infinitely small points, which is pretty implausible and breaks a lot of stuff.

You think the LHC will produce micro black holes?

He'll call it a Hawking Hole. It was his idea.

[HGFB]

I roll.... A twelve.

[betamax]

I roll.... A twelve.

Put them away before I take them away.

[merman]

Saw him out and about once in Cambridge.

Also remember the year the local paper published its "Citizen's Guide", full of useful local numbers for the council, clubs and societies and so on. The cover was a picture of one of the parks in Cambridge, and there was Professor Hawking in his wheelchair in the shot...

[teamonkey]

You think the LHC will produce micro black holes? Surely the energies involved are far too low. Otherwise, Hawking Radiation better bloody exist.

Hawking wrote a paper saying that under some variations of string theory micro black holes can theoretically be created by the LHC, but if any were generated they would evaporate immediately and the LHC is more than sensitive enough to detect the resulting Hawking radiation.

[Absolute_Zero]

The extra spatial dimension assist to Micro Black Hole creation postulated in that paper wasn't particularly well received. It totally depends on those extra dimensions existing. The implicit detection of which would be bigger news than Hawking radiation.

We will see, if they ever get it up to speed. My bet is no Higgs, no MBHs... lots of interesting BIG science.

[Deckard]

How cool will this be ?

The Kidz Field at Glastonbury is always a place of magic and wonder, but this year – the field’s 21st anniversary – they’ve really outdone themselves.

We’re incredibly excited to announce that renowned physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking is coming to the Kidz Field for a special guest appearance!