Hawking Page #5

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for plane crashes because he discovered gravity.

Very clever, very smart.

But smartness isn't the real world, is it?

- Cosmologists aren't interested in the real world.

- You see that girl?

- What about her?

- Stephen's going to make her fall in love with him.

- Using only Einstein's theory of relativity.

- What???

- A pound says it can't be done.

- I really don't think this is a good idea.

The honour and integrity of our entire subject

is at stake here.

Alright, alright, I'll do it.

One gin and tonic and I think that's -

Excuse me, have you got the time please?

I make it half past seven.

What time do you make it?

- You already know the time.

- I know my time.

Are you trying to be funny?

Time's not a universal quantity.

We used to think that it was, we used to think that it was just there,

marching on at the same pace for everyone everywhere,...

...like a railway track that stretched to infinity.

Time was eternal. Now we know that it isn't.

- Wow.

- You have to know this is incredibly important.

Time's not a background thing,

it's not an absolute, it can switch,

everything else is measured. It's dynamic.

- Dynamic?

- Active.

- Active?

- Wonderful.

If you were to travel East very very quickly -

- Out of sight, to the Far East?

- The Far far East.

Oh completely out of sight.

Yes, completely out of sight. And I stayed here

your time would slow down relative to mine.

- Like I'd get really really slow...

- If you went very very fast.

If I went very very fast,

I'd get really really slow.

Your time would, relative to mine.

Totally out of sight.

Time's very important.

- What star sign are you?

- What? I don't know.

- You alright?

- Fine.

- Beer?

- Yes please.

Did you want another?

Who is that?

Roger Penrose. Brilliant brain.

He'll be a professor within three years.

Sorry, could I?

The thing is just then, um...

I was thinking about

mathematics and not beer,

and sometimes when I'm thinking

in a number of different dimensions

I can't come back very

quickly to words and beer,

and whether I want more of it.

It's because of the

pictures in my head, uh...

I don't know how to make

the words come. You see...

- Pint or...?

- Yes, please.

Poor orchestration, overly romantic,

Wagner despised him.

The feeling was mutual.

- What?

- Brahms despised Wagner.

Well you can't get compare the two.

For one thing the...

- Stephen!

- Yes?

Hello.

Hello.

- Are you alright?

- I'm fine.

- Denmark's a prison.

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