This is Hemet. And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. If you like what you're listening to, please go to Patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast.

Hello. Hi, how are you, Hemet. I'm good. I have so many things I want to talk about today.

Let's jump right in.

We'll jump right in.

Let's start with this sad news, Stephen Hawking is dead.

Yeah.

Sad news because he's such a prominent scientist and look I'm not going to even try to explain to you his accomplishments.

I tried reading like the stuff because I'd never read a brief

history of time. Sorry I should. But I read a lot of the obituaries and I read a lot of the

remembrances of him and you could tell okay what he did with physics and what he tried to do

and what physicists are still doing today obviously impactful he changed the way

people think about these things that's amazing and the fact that he did it

while also dealing with this disability is also amazing and inspiring to a lot of

people I think I said this when this first happened I don't know how many people will ever be able to say they made this

magnitude of a contribution to science and oh by the way they inspired like an Academy

Award winning performance?

Yeah, I... And appeared on The Simpsons.

Like so many random things in his biography that are so neat.

Yeah, Hawking definitely, I think is... I mean obviously, like we don't have to say, like one of the greatest minds, probably the greatest mind of our generation, yada yada yada, yada.

But I think what's interesting about his contribution to science is that he did a really, I feel like he's one of the early scientists that made very difficult science, if not super accessible at least appealing to the masses

which I think you know like it you see that Neil DeGrasse Tyson's and the Bill Nies who are doing similar work

I feel like he not only did it earlier but he did it with much more complicated like physical

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