Earlier in the week Ken Dod died, he is a famous English comedian. Today Steven Hawking died, He is a world famous physics professor. He is said to be an equivalent to Issac newton or Albert Einstein.
I remember a famous experiment he tried where he held a party for time travelers and sent the invitations out after the party had finished. No one came so he concluded that time travel was impossible.
I remember his insight into Black holes and Hawking radiation and theories about the big bang. I remember the warnings he gave about artificial intelligence and trying to contact alien civilisations. Mostly I remember a man trapped in a crippled body that needed a machine to speak but had a strong mind that made the best of his bad luck.
Bit by bit my little world is falling into an oblibion but the truth is it was set that way from
the beginning. I was always aware it would be like that. Famous people I know are dying as they age. Rules are changing and the culture is changing. The world I am living in is unrecognizable to my younger self.
I am grateful I don't have motor neurone disease because it is a crippling and life shortening state of existence and can leave a person a prisoner in their own body. Steven Hawking had the disease and he contributed a lot to society but I imagine that his life must have been very hard.
