Stephen Hawking on Talk Asia

**worldpease** · 07-05-2006, 04:03 AM

This is an interesting transcript
I thought I'd post here.

HR: Hugh Riminton
SH: Stephen Hawking

...HR: In that eternity, can things, can matter move backwards and forwards in time?

SH: An elementary particle, like an electron, can move backwards and forwards in time. When it is travelling forwards in time, it appears to be an electron, but when it is going backwards, it is a positron, a particle of the opposite electric charge, which is the anti particle of the electron.

HR: Could a human being ever move backwards or forwards in time?

SH: In the same way, you might imagine that there could be anti people, composed of anti particles, or particles travelling backwards in time. But if you meet your anti self, don’t shake hands. You would both vanish in a great flash of annihilation radiation.

HR: We’ll try to remember that one. ...

This is just a very small part of the interview,
you can find the rest here

**spenz** · 07-05-2006, 06:25 AM

it's all theories, and hollywood have been doing movies like that for centuries. But since the advancement of our technology is so aggresive and fast . We might be able to invent a time machine sooner or later.

**worldpease** · 07-05-2006, 06:29 AM

Yes, yes... I know its theory and all that stuff,
but the most interesting aspect of the article I think,
are the views of that man in particular, the full article is also interesting.

**Barbarossa** · 07-05-2006, 08:59 AM

he's a cawk.

Davros > Stephen Hawkings.

**spenz** · 07-05-2006, 09:56 AM

I like what he said about, if ever an alien lifeform would come and visit us. he believes that, it wouldn't be an encounter like in the film E.T. but more of like Independece Day given the history of colonization of earth.LOL this man is outrageous.

**thewizeard** · 07-05-2006, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by spenz

I like what he said about, if ever an alien lifeform would come and visit us

..you had better check the lounge again

**thewizeard** · 07-05-2006, 01:14 PM

Code:

21 years ago, in a bout of pneumonia, doctors advised his family to turn off life support. They didn’t, he fought back, but the treatment claimed his voice.

It makes one wonder...after 20 years a man recovers from a deep coma...

Food for thought ..how many patients were allowed, after Doctors advice, by family members, to die... So the moral is, never give up hope...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=46558

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