Stephen Hawking

Sponger15SB · #1 02-02-2005, 06:08 PM

So I go into our little Ucen area to eat lunch today on campus. I order some mexican food downstairs, set my stuff down at a table, and run up to grab a school paper. When I get to the top of the stairs I walk past a handicapped man in an motorized chair that looks like Stephen Hawking. I think naww that can't be him, but it sure did look like it. So I grab my paper and walk back down, and discover that it is in fact him! He was eating at the same mexican place, and the place that him and the people he was with was directly next to the table where I had sat my stuff down!

He didn't "say" much to his friends, but it was cool being next to such a genius.

I was thinking of telling him about a problems I found in his book "A Brief History of Time", but I figured he wouldn't want to be bothered while he was eating. Besides I know far to much about theoretical physics to be bothered with somebody like that, I mean he hasn't even won a nobel prize! pfffft

Also, a few months ago I was in line for panda express when David Gross got in line behind me with a friend. Word.

istewart · #2 02-02-2005, 06:11 PM

You could've at least offered to wipe his ass for him.

AngryCola · #3 02-02-2005, 06:11 PM

That's wild.

Stephen Hawking is a pimp.

A_C_Slater · #4 02-02-2005, 06:12 PM

I would have asked him if it was in fact possible, at least theoretically, that two Marty Mcfly's could exist simultaneously in 1955.

TylerD · #5 02-02-2005, 06:14 PM

You should've followed Homer's example and tried to get some free Mexican.

Homer · #6 02-02-2005, 06:15 PM

I would have asked him if he is still intrigued by my theory of a donut-shaped universe.

Sponger15SB · #7 02-02-2005, 06:20 PM

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I would have asked him if it was in fact possible, at least theoretically, that two Marty Mcfly's could exist simultaneously in 1955.

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HAHAHA

Yeah I texted my friend and she kept on telling me to go talk to him or see if I could get his autograph or something.

Anyone see the skit with Jim Carrey and Hawking on conan a while back where(something like this....) Jim was talking about some theory of the universe, and Hawking phones in to say tell him what a genius he is, they get into an argument about who is the bigger genius and start saying like

hawking: you are
carey: no you are
hawking: no you are times infinity

and then hawking says he has to go because he hasn't finished watching dumb and dumber.

classic.

AngryCola · #8 02-02-2005, 06:23 PM

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Yes.
It was funny.

Hawking was also in the Simpsons and Futurama.

Sponger15SB · #9 02-02-2005, 06:29 PM

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Hawking was also in the Simpsons and Futurama.

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Hawking: Don't feel bad, Lisa. Sometimes, the smartest of us can be the most childish.
Lisa: Even you?
Hawking: No. Not me. Never.

....

Hawking: Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it.
Homer: Wow, I can't believe someone I never heard of is hanging out with a guy like me.
Moe: All right, it's closing time. Who's paying the tab?
Homer: [imitating Hawking's voice box] I am.
Hawking: I didn't say that.
Homer: [still imitating] Yes I did.

Duke · #10 02-02-2005, 06:38 PM

I think Universe in a Nutshell is a neater book conceptually than aBHoT. Both are really high level, though. Feynman said that if you can't explain something to a College Freshman it means you don't understand it well enough. I tend to agree.

And yeah, I think that Hawking is probably the smartest guy on Earth right now. Too bad he's like he is. Do you think he would trade his mind for the ability to walk/be normal? I don't think he would.

~D