Let's go through the life of Stephen Hawking.
Let's look at his achievements because I think once you see all of his great achievements,
all of his great knowledge, all the inventions that he's given us, I think you'll understand
why we should stop and take that quote a little more seriously.
Beginning in 1973, Hawking moved into the study of quantum gravity and quantum mechanics.
But you probably don't even know what that means, do you?
His work in this area was spurred by a visit to Moscow.
Have you ever even been there?
And discussions with Yakov Borisovich Zaldovich and Alexei Starabinsky, whose work showed
that according to the uncertainty principle, rotating black holes emit particles.
To Hawking's annoyance, his much-checked calculations produced findings that contradicted
his second law, which claimed the black holes could never get smaller and supported Bekenstein's
reasoning about their entropy.
Now, here's the thing about this.
Don't you hate it when you have a law and then you do all these calculations and everything
proves that your law is false?
It's like you keep using that word law.
It's like you don't know what it means, though.
Law?
I thought a law is something that we know for sure.
No, but Stephen Hawking's got these laws that keep getting disproven by facts, by a bunch
of Russian guys that are hanging them out to dry, quantum physically speaking.
In the late 1970s, Hawking was elected the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Cambridge.
His inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was titled, Is the End in Sight
for Theoretical Physics?
Boy, I sure hope so.
And he proposed that N equals 8, super gravity, as the leading theory to solve many of the
outstanding problems physicists were studying.
Hawking's promotion coincided with a health crisis, which led to Hawking accepting, albeit
reluctantly, some nursing services at home.
At the same time, he was also making a transition in his approach to physics, becoming more
intuitive and speculative rather than insisting on mathematical proofs.
Okay, so these guys are all about proof.
It's all about the evidence, right?
No, it's more just like intuitive, man.
Dude, dude, just smoke this.
You're going to understand black holes, man, I'm telling you.
It's going to take you, dude, it's going to take you into a whole new dimension, man.
I mean, you're not going to need to rely so much on like these mathematical proofs, you
know.
I mean, that stuff's just holding you back, man.
You've got to get more intuitive, you've got to get more speculative, man.
Just take this drug, man, it's going to open your mind to a whole new galaxy, man.
You know, it's more speculative rather than insisting on mathematical proofs.
Who needs them?
Who needs proof?
Hey, this is what he said, I'd rather be right than rigorous.
I'm not going to be rigorous in my testing and make sure that, you know, this stuff's
actually right.
I'd rather just say I'm right, because it really annoyed me when that guy proved me
wrong in Russia.
In 1981, he proposed that information in a black hole is irretrievably lost when a black
hole evaporates.
You know, this stuff has really improved my quality of life.
I know that this stuff really went into the development of my particular smartphone.
The information paradox violates the fundamental tenet of quantum mechanics and led to years
of debate, including the black hole war.
With Leonard Seuss-Kent and Gerard Tehoft, by 2003 consensus among physicists was growing
that Hawking was wrong about the loss of information in a black hole.
In a 2004 lecture in Dublin, he conceded his 1997 bet, doesn't that sound real scientific?
Well, I'll bet you that information is lost in a black hole.
Huh?
I got a hundred bucks that says that it's lost.
But then 2004 rolled around and it was time for Hawking to ante up, time for him to pay
up, because he conceded, you know, his bet against Preskill.
But he described his own somewhat controversial solution to the information paradox problem
involving the possibility that black holes have more than one topology.
So I know I've been proven wrong, but maybe it's both.
As part of another long-standing scientific dispute, Hawking had emphatically argued
and bet, this guy puts his money where his mouth is, he had emphatically argued and
bet that the Higgs boson would never be found.
The particle was proposed to exist as part of the Higgs field theory by Peter Higgs in
1964.
Hawking and Higgs engaged in a heated and public debate.
Remember when you pay per viewed that?
It was sort of like when people pay per viewed like Tyson versus, what was the guy?
Yeah, it was like when you pay per viewed like Tyson versus Holyfield.
Remember that debate, Hawking and Higgs?
It was a very heated and public debate over the matter in 2002 and again in 2008, with
Higgs criticizing Hawking's work and complaining that Hawking's celebrity status gives him
instant credibility that others don't have.
The particle was discovered in July 2012.
I mean, this guy's got a gambling problem and he's throwing good money after bad.
Hawking quickly conceded that he'd lost his bet and said that Higgs should win the Nobel
Prize for physics, which he did in 2013.
By the way, Hawking and Higgs are dumb and dumber, just so you know.
Anyway, Hawking has stated that given the vastness of the universe, aliens likely exist,
but that contact with them should be avoided.
Now, here's the thing about that, is that there's no evidence for aliens, none, zero,
zilch, nada, but yet when you listen to these atheist scientists, they all talk about aliens.
Why?
Because it's based on two things, deep-seated hatred for the God of the Bible, but don't
forget element number two, science fiction is a major source.
We're going to get into that.
Hawking has argued that computer viruses should be considered a new form of life.
I mean, is this guy smart or what?
We're not worthy, Stephen Hawking, I repent in sackcloth and ashes.
I know that thou canst do everything.
Stephen Hawking, Hawking has argued that computer viruses should be considered a new form of
life, and has stated that maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of
life we've created so far is purely destructive.
Talk about creating life in our own image.
You haven't created life, Stephen Hawking, and you never will.
Only God can create life.