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Originally Posted by magicstix
I have very little respect for Hawking these days. It seems he's very much past his prime. His attempts to resolve the black hole information paradox in 2004 were an utter joke and incredibly intellectually lazy.
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I'm split over Hawkings. Some of the stuff he calculated in earlier times, was apparently brilliant. But he also always came up with very strange ideas and concepts that made him look like a fool. He redefined the art of doomsday-calling (according to statements by him in the late 90s we all already should have seized to exist by now most likely), his view on technology being almost omnipotent and unlimited in possibilities imo is naive, his attempt how he explained why he does not need a deity to "explain" the universe and his earlier announcement of the hunt for the world formula imo made him look like a childish fool. So, there is obviously intellectual brightness and anti-intellectual foolishness both at the same time and in the same person. IMO he overstepped the limits when he implied that metaphysical Why's can be explained by cosmological How'S, making the Why disappear somehow. It stunned me more than one time that he fell into that trap.
Maybe he is just human!?