Is everyone sure that his computer didn't just crash or something?

Maybe he just needs a reboot

Dumb shit? It's the truth, and it is very sad IMHO.

Is there a link for it anywhere? I would be interested in seeing what context it was being said in.

Carcosa is just trying to get under my skin by saying 600 instead of 6000, the actual age of the Earth. He thinks he's being funny. But he's just being stupid.

It truly is wondrous just how stupid the average human being is.

Yep. And this site is loaded with a bunch of them. Garrett Bolles looks like a genius next to guys like you and Carcosa.

I don think he get it

If that's what you get out of my post, more power to ya.

And this is important why?

Actually I'm being funny and smart

It's a smart good post, idiot

Did you really come to Stephen Hawking's death thread for a lesson in astrophysics? Go read a book.

ed witten is twice the physicist that hawking was and he's still alive.

I'm certainly no authority on the most prominent physicists, but I have to imagine that there are quite a few guys out there doing really great work. Hawking was brilliant, but he gained a lot of celebrity due to his condition that elevated awareness of his work. Nothing wrong with that, but it's more an issue of who the next guy will be to really keep the public's imagination than who is actually making key discoveries.