Stephen Hawking n'est plus et c'est une perte pour l'humanité. Ses particules vont retourner à la poussière.
Les fans d'astronomie et d'astrophysique sont bien tristes car il eut le don de vulgariser des concepts fort compliqués.
Il fut aussi chanteur de rock (il a chanté avec les Pink Floyd)... et un type plein d'humour qui interprétât la "Galaxy Song" des Monty Python lors de leur dernier spectacle (à moins que ce ne soit l'antépénultième - ou leur very very last supper!).
C'était à l'Arena O² en 2014 et Stephen Hawking était dans la salle...
Une petite video en hommage à cette prestation et à l'astronomie débridée (le savant apparait dans les deux dernières minutes et interprète la chanson avec son synthétiseur vocal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpBWhmamWo
R.I.S. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) ... Rest In Space.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Les fans d'astronomie et d'astrophysique sont bien tristes car il eut le don de vulgariser des concepts fort compliqués.
Il fut aussi chanteur de rock (il a chanté avec les Pink Floyd)... et un type plein d'humour qui interprétât la "Galaxy Song" des Monty Python lors de leur dernier spectacle (à moins que ce ne soit l'antépénultième - ou leur very very last supper!).
C'était à l'Arena O² en 2014 et Stephen Hawking était dans la salle...
Une petite video en hommage à cette prestation et à l'astronomie débridée (le savant apparait dans les deux dernières minutes et interprète la chanson avec son synthétiseur vocal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpBWhmamWo
R.I.S. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) ... Rest In Space.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!