A Brief History of Time Page #2

Synopsis: Unlike the book, this film is really an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together.
Director(s): Errol Morris
Production: Anglia Television Ltd
  4 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
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Year:
1991
80 min
692 Views


come across some calculations...

as to how long it might take.

At that time,

I think I made a comment...

to one of my friends,

John McClenahan...

"I think that Stephen...

will turn out to be

unusually capable."

I don't think I put it

in quite those words...

but I made

some such remark to him...

and he disagreed.

And so we made

a bet on the subject.

In our childish way, we bet...

a bag of sweets on the issue.

And incidentally, I reckon

that my bet has come correct...

and I think

I'm entitled to payment...

which has not yet been made.

The expansion of the universe...

suggested the possibility...

that the universe

had a beginning...

at some time in the past.

The point at which the universe

may have started out...

became known as the Big Bang.

The first year

he was at St. Albans School...

he came, I think,

third from the bottom.

I said, "Well, Stephen..."

do you really have to be

as far down as that?"

And he said, "Well..."

a lot of other people

didn't do much better."

He was quite unconcerned.

Somehow he was

always recognized...

as being very bright...

and in fact they gave him

the Divinity Prize one year.

That was not surprising because

his father used to read him...

Bible stories

from a very early age...

and he knew them all

very well...

and he was quite well-versed

in religious things...

although I don't think he makes

a great deal of practice of it now.

Everybody

used to argue theology.

That's a good, safe subject.

You don't need any facts or...

distracting things like that.

If you go in for arguing...

you know, debating... you can

quite happily debate about anything...

including theology...

and the existence

or otherwise of God.

And then someone gets bored...

or Journey Into Space comes on,

or something like that...

and the argument breaks up.

In an unchanging universe...

one can imagine

that God created the universe...

at literally any time

in the past.

On the other hand...

if the universe is expanding...

there may be physical reasons...

why there had to be a beginning.

An expanding universe

does not preclude a creator...

but it does place limits...

on when he might have

carried out his job.

When the family went to India...

it was arranged that Stephen should

come and live with us for a year.

He decided it would be nice...

that we should have...

Scottish dancing in the evening.

Mind you, this was

quite an ordinary house...

but we had rather a lot of room

and a large hall...

and so we bought some records...

and a book about what to do...

and Stephen took charge.

And he insisted

you put on a jacket and a tie.

And then he was

the master of the proceedings.

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. His book A Brief History of Time appeared on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Hawking was a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. In 2002, Hawking was ranked number 25 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Hawking had a rare early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis "ALS" or Lou Gehrig's disease) that gradually paralysed him over the decades. Even after the loss of his speech, he was still able to communicate through a speech-generating device, initially through use of a hand-held switch, and eventually by using a single cheek muscle. He died on 14 March 2018 at the age of 76. more…

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