From Nostradamus to Babavanga in the Balkans, to the Maya's prediction of 20 12 and the Martian boy, as well as Japanese futurists and many self-proclaimed predictions from the future, it seems that no one can compare with scientists. Hawking is definitely an exception, because he is not like those so-called prophets, he is not a god stick!
He is a famous theoretical physicist, cosmologist and writer in Britain. He was the research director of the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University. In addition, he also put forward the singularity theorem with Nobel Prize winner Penrose. 1979-2009, Hawking was Lucas Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. In 2002, he was ranked 25th in the BBC's "100 Greatest Englishman"!
None of these titles can be obtained casually, and the core ones are theoretical physicists and mathematics professors. These two positions are impossible without high IQ and profound academic attainments, so Hawking is undoubtedly not a madman, let alone a magic stick. He is a scientist first!
But it is obvious that Hawking is also a prophet. Whether in public or in private, Hawking has made unpredictable predictions, including Hawking's "personal words" and reporters' paraphrases. Of course, there are also many media writers who promote their own drugs in the name of Hawking. Hawking never distinguished them. Of course, Hawking also has his own difficulties, so he must stay enthusiastic!
Hawking suffers from a rare amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which has an early onset and slow progress. Hawking was diagnosed from 1963. At that time, the doctor said that he could only live for two years, but Hawking survived, only from the beginning with crutches, to the wheelchair, and then to the inability to move or even talk. In 2008, he was finally able to move.
But Hawking still wrote the best-selling books in the world, such as A Brief History of Time, The Universe in the Shell, The Grand Design and so on. Royalties bring him rich income, but he also has a huge medical team and the expenses of the Hawkins. Hawking alive must make money every day. Of course, he won't miss every opportunity to make money.
Hawking has many reliable or unreliable predictions. If you count his assumptions in popular science books, there are more predictions, but the predictions you really care about are probably the following:
About these predictions, some are fabricated, some are hearsay, and some are real Hawking's predictions, such as leaving the earth, the earth becomes a fiery fireball and the earth is destroyed. Hawking did say such a prediction!
Hawking's purpose in making this prediction is not like magic like "Mars boy", but that the earth is facing real threats, such as global warming, the earth may be hit by asteroids, and human beings must immigrate to Mars to keep the backup of civilization. It is also the advice that scientists give to mankind!
In addition to the popular Hawking prophecy, there is also the "official" Hawking prophecy:
The black hole theory may be predicted by general relativity. Schwarzschild calculated the schwarzschild radius that collapsed into a black hole, while Hawking theoretically completed the process of collapsing into a singularity. So Hawking's statement that "black holes don't exist" is really shocking, but his theory of black hole evaporation is even more frightening, because black holes are "evaporated".
We don't know whether artificial intelligence will end human beings, but the reality in many science fiction movies may indeed happen, but what will happen when families all over the world start to use artificial intelligence? This is perfectly explained in I, Robot (Public Enemy of Machinery), so Hawking is not alarmist.
In fact, the danger of human contact with aliens is not a prediction. As early as when Professor Drake used Arecibo telescope to send signals to the M 13 globular cluster, it caused too much discussion. Liu also said "dark forest" in "Three-body", so this is not Hawking's original prediction, but he did warn him.
Immigrate to another planet within 1000 years, because the earth is too dangerous, eggs can't be put in one basket!
The absence of heaven shows that Hawking doesn't believe in the soul and the afterlife, which expresses the true feelings of materialist scientists. As early as1980s, Hawking and his first wife, Jayne Wilder, had a fierce conflict because of their religious beliefs!
Jayne Wilder is a devout Christian, and Hawking is a scientist with a rational identity, so there is an inevitable conflict between them, which is also an important reason for their divorce!
Hawking went from rejecting aliens to actively looking for aliens.
Hawking once held a dinner party without telling anyone. Because he held a dinner party for future people, it was announced by the media the next day. Of course, it is impossible for anyone to attend such a banquet. Hawking thinks that people will either become extinct or have no time to travel in the future, but there are two problems. First, people disdain to come to the party. Of course, the other is Hawking's support for time travel in A Brief History of Time.
Another interesting event is that Hawking has strongly opposed contact with aliens many times, but he still led the Breakthrough Listening Program in 20 16 under the sponsorship of Russian billionaire yuri milner. These are two plans. The breakthrough is to use laser propulsion technology to launch a detector to proxima centauri, and the detector accelerated to the speed of 10% will arrive in proxima centauri in several decades.
The other is the monitoring plan, which organizes radio telescopes around the world to monitor the radio or laser signals that may be emitted by 654.38+0 million star systems in the whole sky to identify whether there are civilized signals, which is also the continuation of SETI's plan to search for aliens.
It seems that scientists are as persistent as evil forces in the search for aliens, and even Hawking, who has repeatedly warned that aliens will destroy mankind, can't avoid custom.
An interesting question, because Tesla has many earth-shattering inventions, such as the Wodenkrift tower that caused the Tunguska Big Bang, the radio vibration detection technology to detect the crust of the solar system, the mysterious Tesla ghost radio and the UFO developed by Tesla.
But in fact, all this, except for the "ghost" radio, was really invented by Tesla, and others were crowned by people's families. He never admitted it himself, and of course it was impossible to admit it, because Tesla had been dead for more than half a century when everyone was making rumors.
Tesla is indeed a great inventor, electromechanical engineer and so on. It is also recognized as the promoter of power commercialization, one of the inventors of radio, and one of the greatest electrical engineers in the United States. The most famous ones are the improved AC and AC motors and the invented Tesla coil!
However, "ghost radio" is a nonsense thing, it is just an oscillating circuit with excessive drift, including the ghost radio which is very popular in modern times. Simply put, there are some receiving devices similar to frequency hopping, but they are chaotic and have no corresponding transmitting devices, so they can receive normal broadcast clips, but they are a hodgepodge of various channels and have no meaning at all!
Further reading: Hawking and Tesla, who contributed the most?
This is an unclear question. One is a theoretical physicist and the other is an inventor. If you want to talk about popular science, it is undoubtedly Hawking. If you want to make a direct contribution to society, it must be Tesla. See who contributes a lot and distinguish from the angle. Of course, in the eyes of the "public", Tesla's tall and brilliant image is unparalleled!