Stephen Hawking: A Comprehensive History of Life Lived at it's Fullest

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The sad news on the passing of Prof. Stephen Hawking spread like a wild fire today; actually it was the first thing I heard right after emerging from unconciousness; not a "good morning" or a silly yawning but a blunt "Stephen Hawking has died".

As every other Physicist walking this planet we all are very familiar with his ideas, his personal history, his legacy and of course his A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes .

Back in the late 90's and early 2000's every time I ran into a Cuban chess player I was asked how to get a copy of the book to take it to home because there, in Cuba, it was seeked like true gold because the Embargo. They were not the only ones fascinated by this book; it was influential to hundreds of million of people that got enlightened about some obscure object that sucks up it all in the Universe, the idea of Time and that fantastic thing named Matter. To many, it was the first glimpse to a true definition of this "thing" we so easily call Life but that nobody understands nor even define using less than a few thousand words.

To be honest, A Brief History of Time never made my list of favorites; by 1988 I already had my own pantheon of personal heros and demigods. It was his debates with Roger Penrose that keept me awake more nights that I could possibly count, ideas known nowadays as the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems.

Besides his contributions in Science, I have for Prof. Hawking a very profound gratitude for building this amazing bridge between Physics and the general public, inspiring hordes to became Physicists, Astronomers and Astronomy enthusiasts; for making Physics and the image of a Physicist a 'red hot" idea.

An avid chess player himself, a passion he shared with his children.

Or, check out this short movie he co-starred for Caltech on Quantum Chess.

He lived his life full-throttled: married twice, had and grew his children, travelled the world, had fun everywhere he went to and, according to his biographers, despite his illness, enjoyed sex beyond a normald nerd would be able to grasp.

His legacy can be summed up like these words of his:

We must all do the best we can in whatever situation we're in. Never give up.

--Stephen Hawking

It's amazing to share existance with Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018).

Godspeed you Stephen Hawking! Looking forward to see you downstream Life's river some day...

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Moisés Jafet Cornelio-Vargas

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Physicists, award-winning technologist, parallel entrepreneur, consultant and proud father born in the Dominican Republic.
Interested in HPC, Deep Learning, Semantic Web, Internet Global High Scalability Apps, InfoSec, eLearning, General Aviation, Formula 1, Classical Music, Jazz, Sailing and Chess.
Founder of pluio.com and hospedio.com.
Author of the Sci-fi upcoming novel Breedpeace and co-author in dozens of publications.
Co-founder of MunicipiosAlDia.com, Jalalio Media Consultants and a number of other start-ups.
Former professor and Key-note speaker in conferences and congresses all across the Americas and Europe.
Proud member of the Microchip No.1 flying towards Interestellar space on board NASA's Stardust Mission, as well as member of Fundación Municipios al Día, Fundación Loyola, Fundación Ciencias de la Documentación and a number of other non-for profit, professional organizations, Open Source projects and Chess communities around the world.
All opinions here are his own's and in no way associated with his business interests or collaborations with third-parties.