Talk:Stephen Hawking

Addition to Selected publications -> films and series

"Into the Universe, with Stephen Hawking" is listed, but is not an actual link, it only has a citation to the link. "Into the Universe, with Stephen Hawking" should be made into an actual link. Here is what you can type to do so;IN A WILD SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOTHER <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/stephen-hawking/about/about.html">Into the Universe, with Stephen Hawking</a>

Minor addition to Discovery Show

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/stephen-hawking/ is the link to his new show on the Discovery Network, and should be included with the rest of the links. Thanks.

Wrong quote from ABC news on Hawking being religious

I am not editing, but I will, if someone does not tell me the reason why he just put in [faith] in a quote of Hawking that clearly is not there in the original article.

"When Sawyer asked if there was a way to reconcile religion and science, Hawking said, "There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."

Compare that to

"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority [imposed dogma, faith], [as opposed to] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."[60]

If you think that faith is an synonym of authority I recommend reading Heidegger.

BrAndi

Recognition - acclaim

Original text reads: On 19 December 2007, a statue of Hawking by renowned late artist Ian Walters was unveiled at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge.[44] In May 2008, the statue of Hawking was unveiled at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town.

The above statement is factually incorrect and infers that the sculpture of Hawking unveiled in Cape Town was produced by Ian Walters.

Actually the sculpture unveiled in Cape Town was created by Eve Shepherd A.R.B.S, S.P.S a larger version of which has been commissioned for Cambridge University.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7661892.stm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4914634.ece C Wilson Shepherd (talk) 20:50, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 71.198.215.196, 31 January 2011

{{edit semi-protected}} Please change this statement- "Hawking has a neuro-muscular dystrophy that is related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...." to this "Hawking has motor neuron disease (MND), or, as it is known in the United States,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)." Per Stephen Hawking's own website- http://www.hawking.org.uk/index.php/disability/disabilityadvice - this is his correct diagnosis. Muscular Dystrophy is a different disease. 71.198.215.196 (talk) 11:01, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

 Partly done: I just changed "neuro-muscular dystrophy" to "motor neurone disease". Hopefully that's okay. If not, replace the edit semi-protected template. -Atmoz (talk) 17:42, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

MC Hawking

As yet, no-one has mentioned http://www.mchawking.com/ It's not really him but it sounds like him and is an obvious tribute.155.136.80.37 (talk) 10:29, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Google Chrome detects this site as containing malware. ConconJondor (talk) 10:33, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Citation problem

Citation 23, as the current numbering goes, has some sort of problem; one gets a most interesting error message; it doesn't seem to go bad at the destination website, but somewhere before that. This is the citation relating to Top-Down Cosmology. Ideally the editor who added that section would be best prepared to track down the proper article and try again. JohnBobMead (talk) 00:07, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Not my citation, but a cursory look indicates a problem at Nature servers. I would wait for them to fix it. Materialscientist (talk) 00:12, 28 February 2011 (UTC) VAGINA!!!!!!!!!!!