August 28, 2018 ▸ People, Science

Episode 325: Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Genius

On this episode of The Sofa King Podcast, we put our thinking caps on and talk about the life, thoughts, and struggles of Stephen Hawking. Hawking was largely considered the smartest person in our generation, and his theories on life, the universe, and everything radically changed our cosmology. His accomplishments are impressive enough as they are, but coupled with the fact that he had ALS and was bound to a wheelchair, unable to talk, write, or do much of anything is in conceivable.

Hawking was born to a family of well-educated eccentrics (they drove an old cab, kept bees in their basement, and made fireworks in their greenhouse, you know, like you do…). He followed in their footsteps and went to Oxford where he was typically bored with his studies and excelled while doing less than an hour of work per day on his studies. While there, he attempted to study a particular field of mathematics, but the degree wasn’t offered. He went to study the universe instead.

From there, he wrote majorly influential papers that focused on the nature of space time and black holes, and he became an instant rock star in academia. He married as his disease was getting worse, and he went on to gain international fame by writing one of the biggest selling books of all time, A Brief History of Time.

So, what did Stephen Hawking say about black holes, and how did this change later in life? What did he thing of the gangsta rap album done using his voice synthesizer called MC Hawking (with the album A Brief History of Rhyme)? What is the conspiracy theory surrounding him, and is NASA involved? Why did he divorce his wife, and who did he end up marrying? Listen, laugh, learn.

Conspiracy Theory on Stephen Hawking: http://milesmathis.com/hawk3.pdf