• Stephen Hawking: The Life of the World's Most Famous Scientist

  • By: Charles River Editors
  • Narrated by: Nicholas Olivo
  • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Stephen Hawking: The Life of the World's Most Famous Scientist

By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Nicholas Olivo
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Dr. Stephen William Hawking, British mathematician, theoretical physicist, and cosmologist, is the face of twenty-first century physics, and yet cannot speak directly to his audience. He is no longer able to move his limbs due to the incapacitating effects of ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The affliction is better known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," named after the great American baseball player. Since 2009, in fact, Hawking can no longer operate his wheelchair.

His desperate struggle to stay connected comes at a time in which the amassing of Hawking's theories, developed over the past half-century, seems poised to discover and affirm new solutions to the mysteries of the universe. Occupying a unique place in the history of physics, Hawking, more than Newton or Einstein, lives in the perfect era from which to stand at the threshold of new possibilities for balancing and synchronizing the theories of General Relativity, put forth by his great predecessors, and the newer field of the quantum world, hinted at in the mid-twentieth century but only more recently brought forward by leading proponents. He has devoted the lion's share of his adult life to "probing the space-time described by general relativity and the singularities where it breaks down," and is, in advancing years, more driven than ever by the urge to uncover all he can about the nature of the larger universe.

Stephen Hawking: The Life of the World's Most Famous Scientist examines the life and career of the English physicist.

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Mister Hawkings theories are partially correct yet not explained.

When something is moving it can be stopped. The intention is tested. . Example. Firstly he studied Einstein’s theory. Cause and effect which is the same as judge lest ye be judged. God is the entire universe. The energy that is god imploded. We live within god as man believes god to exist he does but not as a human. He is all. We are liken to what one would find inside of a human a tree an animal and a disease within these energies. Like man attempts to kill cancer our bodies instinctively attempt to do so also. But where does cance begin. It begins as a judgement. Say you see someone and their hair isn’t to your liking but they’ve had chemo several times unbeknownst to you. Then you see another being that has a filthy home and is unkempt and you judge them not knowing they care for someone and have no time to
Care for much else. Whatever your judgements accomplish be it bad or good you will face. This is the energy that is missing an explanation. Mister hawking pushed his family away just like Einstein did. When you judge another mans work you will face that judgement it’s like talking to yourself. You can talk yourself out of things and into things. Based upon your energy things shift align and progress. Notice how things seem amazing then they don’t. That’s how intention works. Be careful what you want from the universe because someone will have less as you have more. Then you will have less as they have more. We are energy. We manifested based upon our energies wants needs etc. each need manifesting more. Thing making a garment. You know you need a fabric. But what kind. Who is impacted by the process of this fabric who is underpaid etc and so forth it’s infinite. We do not die we reincarnate. Our energy sheds past energy that has been decided and we are born into
Facing that energy. That’s why things seem uneven. Those dice mister hawking referred to. Einstein said god doesn’t play dice. No. Our children are the dice. Anything with a face is a roll of the dice. What you judge you become. Mister hawking was known for judging others so the collective judged him. Some co
Punters too slow some minds not bright enough. Hence him becoming a computer. This is how cause and effect work. A few days short of two weeks before his passing I wrote him. He didn’t respond but he did two weeks before his passing predict the world would end. He predicted his life would end. The world will end when the collective wants it to end one man does not have control
Over such an act. I was live on fb showing the patterns in simple equation to mister hawkings passing. Four mini coopers two on my side of the street two on the opposite side of the street and my Mini Cooper making the fifth Mini Cooper several spaces ahead in my side( it was up for repossession and a moving truck titled prodigy on the opposite corner of my Mini Cooper same distance the collective atterns on the mini coopers side view mirrors were that of the British flag. I was listening to the audible books on Stephen hawking and Albert Einstein stein that day. Bohr passed when I was conceived Stephen hawking diagnosed with als when I was born mister hawking passed in Einstein’s birthday as the new prodigy showed in the simplest way how the universe works. Mister hawking calculated my life story being the explanation of how the universe works. You can tell me any situation and I can show the cause and effect right down to death why relationships fail why you get into accidents and why you are miserable as well happy. It’s not what you think but I do know the paradigms and I
Understand theory in a profound level. I’ve painted volcano eruptions before they’ve erupted I’ve predicted deaths at music festivals from them I’ve painted fires before they happen and the names of them I’ve painted school shootings and show the math that allowed the number of fatalities, injuries killers names etc. with what I know I can predict and control energy. It’s pretty fascinating

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