What do Stephen Hawking and Galileo share most in common?
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They share the same birthday. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo.
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It does bear noting that Galileo's situation was hundreds of years ago. In the time since, the Catholic church has embraced science more than just about any other religious denomination.  The Jesuits, for instance, were devoted to the study of science and philosophy.\n\nIn the 19th century, it was a Roman Catholic priest, Gregor Mendel, who discovered how genetic inheritance worked. \n\nThe Vatican observatory is a highly respected observatory doing serious science. As Pope John Paul II said in an address to the Academie Francaise, "Truth cannot contradict truth." Of all modern denominations, Catholicism is the one least threatening to science, and one of the very few most scientists would feel comfortable discussing science with.
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Stephen Hawking as per his IQ score.
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Currently String theory is the most accuret theory, and does as well as Quantum and Relativity, but it can also work with what we know of a black hole.
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Have a read at Steven Hawkings "A Brief History of Time"  There is an on-line version somewhere so you don't have to buy it.  It is a long book but is a good effort at explaining very complex mathematics in lay persons terms.  I'm no genius and even I managed to grasp the majority of it.  \n\nIt runs through the history of mathematics and physics, big bang theory (singularity), dark matter, black holes, the lot.  Just don't let your friends find out.  They'll think you're a dweeb!
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Galileo was put in prison for theorizing that the earth was Not the center of the universe, and that it revolved around the sun.\n\nWhile in prison he invented the telescope. How's that for prison reform?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo
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There are LOTS. Pauli Exclusion Principle. Newton's Laws. Kepler's Laws. Galileo had some principles that might be called laws. Thermodynamic laws. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Refraction Law. Ideal Gas Law. Boyle's Law. Charles Law. Biot-Savart Law. And so on and so forth. Hookie's law. \n\nStart researching.
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Well if your having trouble, it may be because you're spelling his name wrong.Its Stephen Hawking. Infomation on him could be found almost anywhere. Try the public library or typing his name into a search.
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I am very interested in astrophysics especially the study of particles in the universe. I am also interested in the possibility of time-travel using black holes.
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sir isaac newton. the man who "discovered" the law of gravity.
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Galileo's laws of motion were sort of precursors to Newton's laws of motion. The law of inertia was actually Galileo's. Galileo investigated forces, but did not go as far as Newton. Galileo also felt all bodies would fall at the same rate in a vacuum, regardless of mass, contrary to Aristotle. \n\nGalileo (possibly with his student Viviani) also realized that a pendulum swings with the same period, independent of the amplitude of the swing.
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Relativity, as known to Galileo and Newton, refers to the idea that motion is relative to the observer.  Giving a simple example, on a calm day standing outside my house I think the air is not moving, while my friend riding in the back of a pickup truck feels the air blowing in his face.  However, both Newton and Galileo still believed there existed an "absolute" motion, as measured by the unchanging framework of the universe.\n\nWith the theory of Special Relativity in 1905, Einstein changed all that and revolutionized physics.  The main idea of special relativity is that the laws of physics should be the same for all observers moving at a constant speed. (Acceleration is not addressed in Special Relativity, but both acceleration and gravity are included in General Relativity, which Einstein formulated 10 years later.)  According to Special Relativity, there are no such things as absolute rest or absolute motion - speed and motion can only be measured against an arbitrary frame of reference, and one reference frame is as valid as any other.  Special Relativity also includes the concept that light travels at an absolute speed which is the same for all observers, regardless of the motion of the observer or the light source. Building on this concept, Special Relativity shows us that not only is motion relative, but so are many other familiar concepts like distance, time, and even energy.  In other words, different observers moving at different speeds will measure quantities such as length, time, and energy differently.  But each observer's measurement is equally valid.  It is the relativity of time that gives us the famous "twins paradox", where an astronaut travelling at very high speeds will age less rapidly than his twin back home on Earth.  Finally, Special Relativity gives us  the famous equation E=mc2, which establishes the equivalence of mass and energy.  All of these ideas were revolutionary and marked the end of Newtonian physics, which had reigned unchallenged for nearly 300 years.
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Draw of the cards thats all, but as Stephen Hawking has proven nothing can hold a good man down. \nhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/cstars_hawking.html
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According to Stephen Hawking, black holes are real and I believe that the Hubble telescope has found some way off in space.  Read Hawking's books and he explains them in a very straight forward, every man can understand style.
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Who's Steven Hokings?  It's Stephen Hawkings.   I'd say that it's tough to say who is smarter, but Einstein has made more advances for the common man then Hawkings.
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Newton actually is the first to come up with the law of universal gravity, g*m(1)*m(2)/(d)squared.  So he's the first to measure gravity as a force, but Galileo is the first in western culture to measure it as an acceleration and conclude it was a constant.