Leonard Mlodinow – My Friend, Stephen Hawking (#112)

Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics Leonard
Mlodinow was Stephen’s closest colleague in his final years. Who
better to put us in the room as Hawking indulges his passion for
wine and curry; shares his feelings on love, death, and disability;
and grapples with deep questions of philosophy and physics. Whether
depicting Hawking’s devotion to his work or demonstrating how he
would make spur of the moment choices, such as punting on the River
Cam (despite the risk the jaunt posed), or spinning tales of
Hawking defiantly urinating in the hedges outside a restaurant that
doesn’t have a wheelchair-accessible toilet, Mlodinow captures his
indomitable spirit. This deeply affecting account of a friendship
teaches us not just about the nature and practice of physics but
also about life and the human capacity to overcome daunting
obstacles. my previous conversation with Len, Deepak Chopra and
Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/E-8mF4HWDnE?sub_confirmation=1 Get
the book here https://amzn.to/3gWgS7U Len received his Ph.D. in
theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley,
was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute
and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology.
His previous books include the bestsellers The Grand Design and A
Briefer History of Time (coauthored with Stephen Hawking),
Subliminal (winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing
Award), and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), as well as
Elastic, Euclid’s Window, Feynman’s Rainbow, and The Upright
Thinkers. 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:39 The story of the book cover
00:08:05 Stephen Hawking Inc. 00:12:51 Living with ALS 00:15:55
Hawking Radiation 00:16:28 The origin of the book 00:18:51 How do
you rebuke Stephen Hawking!? 00:20:45 Even Stephen Hawking got
writer’s block 00:28:27 Our book is NOT an argument against God.
00:29:49 More thoughts on God how Hawking was “Israeli”! 00:30:54
Do singularities exist? Can we ever know? 00:33:50 What was Stephen
Hawking’s philosophy of science? 00:38:45 Have you ever “seen” a
triangle? An example of realism. 00:42:42 What could the role of
God be in the universe? 00:56:04 Which was the more jarring event:
completing your last collaboration with Professor Hawking or his
death? 00:59:28 How did Leonard balance his life while
collaborating with Prof. Hawking? 01:00:37 What would you tell
Stephen now if you could? 01:01:27 Thrilling 3 Final Questions
01:01:56 What is in your “Ethical Will”? 01:04:27 What would you
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