Super genius and physicist Stephen Hawking is supposed to make a full recovery from his chest infection, but is being kept for observation in the mean time. [MSNBC]
Renowned physicist and generally accepted smartest guy in the world Stephen Hawking has been rushed to the hospital in Cambridge in poor condition. Hawking, who is 67, is almost completely paralyzed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We’re all hoping that he recovers quickly and can get back to his research and work. Our thoughts are with you, Stephen. [Reuters]
Stephen Hawking has made his way back to Cambridge after participating in the launch of the LHC to unveil an unbelievable new clock at Corpus Christi College. Designer John Taylor intended the clock to be “terrifying,” saying that he views time as “as not on your side.” In his words, time will “eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he’s salivating for the next.” Dubbed as the “strangest clock in the word,” the Corpus clock features a time-devouring grasshopper at its top that moves around the face one second at a time. As it moves, the 60 slits cut into its face light up to show the time.
We know the LHC won’t end the world, but in an amusing note before its big switch-on tomorrow Stephen Hawking (he of the physics brain the size of a planet) has admitted he’s got a US$100 bet that the machine won’t succeed in one of its big goals: finding the very mysterious Higgs boson.
