Stephen Hawking Ill, Skeptics Everywhere Fear Worst

The big questions

Many of us go through life without asking big questions. Where do we come from? What is our place in the universe? Merely keeping up with bills - whether you use short term loans and mortgage loan modification or not - and moving through the dooms of life like sheeple is the classic example of “the unexplored life” that “is not worth living,” as Socrates put it.

To the best of human knowledge (which is the only knowledge we have, let’s not kid ourselves), the big questions of purpose generally answer themselves. Even if we fail to discern the answer, we needn’t worry. The answer is the question. In the quest for answers, the application of our logic to the problem is what makes us imminently human.

Stephen Hawking loves these questions

Unfortunately, Stephen Hawking is ill. Robert Barr reports for The Huffington Post that the British mathematician and physicist was rushed to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on Monday with a cold and chest infection. Reports indicate that he remains in the hospital at this writing, “resting comfortably.”

Hawking, 67, gained renown for his work on black holes and space-time theory, and has remained active despite being diagnosed at 21 years of age with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), an incurable muscular disease better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He developed the condition at the age of 40 and has been almost entirely paralyzed for some time. He communicates via an electronic voice synthesizer activated via finger. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Stephen Hawking Ill, Skeptics Everywhere Fear Worst"