Chaos - The World of Stephen Hawking

The computer is the image of the beast. The beast is natural man. Natural man is spiritually dead, he is a fallen angel. Natural man stumbles in the dark, he is comfortable with darkness. Like *Stephen suggests, he is not afraid of darkness, he lives in darkness, in the grave.

For those who are interested in the world of darkness, I have two books to recommend: Stephen Hawking - quest for a theory of everything - the story of his life and work ; written by Kitty Ferguson and published by Bantam Books 1992; and the second book which is more 'advanced': A brief history of time - from the big bang to black holes- written by Stephen Hawking and published by Bantam Books 1988.

It is not possible for me to explain the content of these books, instead I will provide the reader with a quote from each book. Stephen Hawking's book is 'a record breaking bestseller' with the following quote from the England's Sunday Times on the cover:

'This book marries a child's wonder to a genius intellect. We journey into Hawking's universe, while marveling at his mind.'

'In real time, an astronaut who fell into a black hole would come to a sticky end. He would be torn apart by the difference between the gravitational force on his head and his feet. Even the particles that made up his body would not survive. Their histories, in real time, would come to an end in a singularity. However the histories of the particles in imaginary time would continue. They would pass into the baby universe, and would re-emerge as the particles emitted by another black hole. Thus, in a sense, the astronaut would be transported to another region of the universe. However, the particle that emerged would not look much like the astronaut. Nor might it be much consolation to him, as he ran into the singularity in real time, to know that his particles will survive in imaginary time. The motto for anyone who falls into a black hole must be: Think Imaginary.'

Would the reader like to know what a 'singularity' is ? I quote Hawking from page 53 in his book:
A brief history of time(1988)

' The answer to this came out of a completely different approach introduced by a British mathematician and physicist, Roger Penrose in 1965. Using the way light cones behave in general relativity together with the fact that gravity is always attractive, he showed that a star collapsing under its own gravity is trapped in a region whose surface eventually shrinks to zero size. And, since the surface of the region shrinks to zero, so too must its volume. All the matter in the star will be compressed into a region of zero volume, so that the density of matter and the curvature of space-time become infinite. In other words, one has a singularity contained within a region of space-time known as a black hole.'

There is hope for Stephen, it is never too late. Should Stephen accept in faith that he is stumbling in the dark, and show remorse, by repenting, he will be resurrected. Only then will he now that there is life after death. Will Stephen turn to faith ? Time will tell, time is running out.

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